Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them.
John SteinbeckLike most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.
John SteinbeckI know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.
John SteinbeckThere's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy
John SteinbeckA water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shadows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically.
John Steinbeck