East of Eden

"Do you know what I believe? I believe that every man is responsible for his own soul."

"I love the world. I love people."

"Some people are born to lift the world up a little when they come into it."

"The Chinese term Timshel means 'thou mayest'—not 'thou shalt.'"

"I feel as though the whole world is under water."

"And now the stone is on my heart."

"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."

"Maybe that's the greatest human capacity—the ability to make things mean something."

"Evil is not something to be done away with as a kind of awful tumor. There is no triumph in it."

"We are not trapped or locked up in these bones."