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'.

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.

If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.

They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.