Fella in business got to lie an' cheat, but he calls it somepin else. That's what's important. You go steal that tire an' you're a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business.
John SteinbeckI have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.
John SteinbeckYou're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.
John SteinbeckThere's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.
John SteinbeckThis you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate, man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back.
John Steinbeck