Of Mice and Men

His ear heard more than is said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.

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

I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.

They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head.

Ain't many guys travel around together. I don’t know why. Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody — to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.