John Steinbeck

"...Fella gets use´ to a place, it´s hard to go," said Casy. "Fella gets use´ to a way of thinkin´, it´s hard to leave. I ain´t a preacher no more, but all the time I find I´m prayin´, not even thinkin´ what I´m doin´..."

"...The hell with it! There ain´t no sin and there ain´t no virtue. There´s just stuff people do. It´s all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain´t nice but that´s as far as any man got a right to say..."

"...I´m gonna work in the fiel´s, in the green fiel´s, an´ I´m gonna be near to folks. I ain´t gonna try to teach ´em nothin´. I´m gonna try to learn. Gonna learn why the folks walks in the grass, gonna hear ´em talk, gonna hear ´em sing. Gonna listen to kids eatin´ mush. Gonna hear husban´an´ wife a-poundin´ the mattress in the night. Gonna eat with ´em and learn..." "... Gonna lay in the grass, open an´ honest with anybody that´ll have me. Gonna cuss an´ swear and hear the poetry of folks talkin´. All that´s holy, all that´s what I didn´t understan´. All them things is the good things."

John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath