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

A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ.

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

I know this a man got to do what he got to do.

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.