James Busse

“Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Think you’ve got knocker fever. Come in to the inn tonight and get it cured up.” “Maybe that’s it,” said Adam. “But I never took much satisfaction in a whore.” “It’s all the same,” Charles said. “You shut your eyes and you can’t tell the difference.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden