John Steinbeck
Quotes
This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.
There's nobody as lonely as an all-married man.
Four hoarse blasts of a ship’s whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
No one wants advice — only corroboration.
Can you disbelieve in something you don't know about? […] It isn't that I don't believe but that I don't know.
Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.
Strength and success— they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.
Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.
And now, our submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.
There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.
A secret's a terribly lonesome thing.
To be alive at all is to have scars.
