О мышах и людях

Nobody can’t blame a person for lookin’.

Иногда сидишь вот так, один-одинешенек, задумаешься, и некому тебе сказать, что правильно, а что нет. Или увидишь чего, но знать не знаешь, хорошо это или плохо. И нельзя обратиться к другому человеку да спросить, видит ли он то же самое. Ничего не поймешь. И объяснить некому.

По настоящему умный человек редко окажется добрым.

...в этом проклятом мире все боятся друг друга.

Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.

S'pose you didn't have nobody. S'pose you couldn't go into the bunk house and play rummy 'cause you was black. How'd you like that? S'pose you had to sit out here an' read books. Sure you could play horseshoes till it got dark, but then you got to read books. Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.

I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why

Le's do it now. Le's get that place now

Well, we'll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens. And when it rains in the winter, we'll just say the hell with goin' to work, and we'll build up a fire in the stove and set around it an' listen to the rain comin' down on the roof