In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

We could live offa the fatta the lan'.

Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

Just set one day's work in front of the last day's work. That's the way it comes out. And that's the only way it does.

I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it.

The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.