East of Eden

"Destruction and creation are the same thing."

"A really great man is the man who makes everyone feel great."

"Money has a personality. Watch it. It has wants and needs and habits almost like a living thing."

"A man only understands what already lies in his own heart."

"It takes great courage to back truth against the world."

"People are not afraid of things but of other people."

"If you want to love something, you have to be willing to lose it."

"The concept of time interested Lee profoundly. He believed that the universe was not only queerer than supposed, but queerer than could be supposed."

"There's no way to pour a baby back in the bottle."

"Some people are born to lift heavy loads and some are born to light lamps."

"We are not trapped unless we believe we are trapped."

"Timshel - thou mayest. That gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world."

"Let me tell you something, boy. It never gets better."

"It's the hardest choice you can make in all the world."

"You are free. That's the hardest thing in the world to understand."

"I can't seem to do the right thing."

"The greatest thing in the world is love."

"I am the most important thing in the world."

"You don't have to be driven crazy by the past."

"There is no natural selection. There is only the selection of consciousness."

"The atom itself is only an idea."

"I'm trying to be good."

"Do you know what you're doing to her?"

"I believe the only creative thing our people have to contribute is probably the structure of our families."

"There's something I want you to understand."

"You're right. That's exactly it."

"Loneliness is a human experience. It is never a lie."

"A man is not beaten until he wishes to be."

"I have never seen a more beautiful thing than those bones."

"You are so right. That's exactly it. We are all sinners."