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.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

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

It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.

I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.

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

Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.