A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.
John SteinbeckI think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.
John SteinbeckIt was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.
John SteinbeckI have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down.
John Steinbeck