I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt- and there is the story of mankind.

It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

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 one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter.

Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.

The land is so much more than its analysis.