If a man ordered a beer milk shake, he thought, he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.
John SteinbeckWhen you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.
John SteinbeckIt is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.
John SteinbeckI think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy.
John SteinbeckWe have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly it feels good to these men to feel superior to animals, but does it not seem that if they were sure of it they would not have to prove it? Often a man who is afraid must constantly demonstrate his courage and, in the case of the hunter, must keep a tangible record of his courage.
John Steinbeck