Tell 'em to God. Don' go burdenin' other people with your sins. That ain't decent. - John Steinbeck

I have known many people to ask for advice but very few who wanted it and none who followed it.

I tell those stories, but they're not what I want to tell. I only know how I want people to feel when I tell them. It wasn't Indians that were important, nor adventures, nor even getting out here. It was a whole bunch of people made into one big crawling beast. And I was the head. It was westering and westering. Every man wanted something for himself, but the big beast that was all of them wanted only westering.

Women and children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole.