The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.

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

It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.

And you know what it is? San Francisco a golden handcuff with the key thrown away.

There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others.

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'.