The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

...to find where you are going, you must know where you are.

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think I shall not be here any more as a resident.

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too.