United States writer noted for his novels about agricultural workers (1902-1968)

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It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
I know this--a man got to do what he got to do.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
No one wants advice -- only corroboration.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.

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