There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

Lennie begged, "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now." "Sure right now. I gotta. We gotta.

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.

I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.