Lennie said quietly, "It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'.

Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved deeply and tried dogfully.

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

No one knows my ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time.

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed

Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.