I truly believe that regret is the only wound the soul does not recover from, and so I'm trying to live without regrets. . . . Each day is another chance to be swept away.
John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promised land in the Western [United States]; the perfidy of banks in foreclosing on poor people's homes; and the insurgent urge of the book's protagonist, Tom Joad, to speak truth to police power. 'Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy,' Tom promises, 'I'll be there. ' In Salinas, Calif. , Ferguson, Mo. , or Staten Island, N. Y. , Tom's truth goes marching on.