“Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.”

“Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.”

“All his life he had wished and waited, and there had been no change, except for the worse.”

“He had come to America, haven of peace and liberty, and it, too, was joining the slaughter, fighting for the big capitalists. There was no peace for men, only murder, cruelty, brutality.”

“America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.”

“If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.”

“His face was a gaze of primal obtuseness.”