There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.
John SteinbeckIt is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.
John SteinbeckWhen you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to capture whole, for they break and tatter under the touch. You must let them ooze and crawl of their own will onto a knife blade and then lift them gently into your bottle of sea water. And perhaps that might be the way to write this book โ to open the page and let the stories crawl in by themselves.
John SteinbeckI donโt mind getting smacked on the chin. I just donโt want to get nibbled to death. Thereโs a difference.
John Steinbeck[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external thingsโproperty, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his cities and his factories, in his business and job and art. But having projected himself into these external complexities, he is them. His house, his automobile are a part of him and a large part of him. This is beautifully demonstrated by a thing doctors knowโthat when a man loses his possessions a very common result is sexual impotence.
John Steinbeck