He never forgot anything but he never bothered to arrange his memories. -Hazel, Cannery Row

Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of them…I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb." "You can’t make a race horse of a pig." "No," said Samuel, "but you can make a very fast pig.

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.

I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

... you must not expect to find that people understand what they do.