George: Guys like us that work on ranches are the loneliest guys in the world. They ain't got no family and they don't belong no place. They got nothin' to look ahead to.
Lennie: But not us George. Tell about us.
George: ...well, we ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody cares.
Lennie: But not us, George, because I... see, I got you to look after me, but you got me to look after you.
Slim: You travel around together?
George: Yeah.
Slim: There ain't many guys travel around together. I don't know why. Maybe everybody in the whole damn world's scared of each other.
Lennie: You damn right, George! You god damn right.
Slim: A guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella.
George: Go to sleep, Lennie.
Lennie: George?
George: Go to sleep, Lennie.
Lennie: I am sleepin', George.
