East of Eden

by John Steinbeck

When our food and clothing and housing all are born in the complication of mass production, mass method is bound to get into our thinking and to eliminate all other thinking.

“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

“No, I’m an old man. And if I should have anything on my conscience it won’t be for long.”

“Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn’t in time.”