When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.
John SteinbeckThe dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and he didn't want to be somewhere else - one of the few contented people I met in my whole journey.
John SteinbeckIt is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.
John SteinbeckShe wasn't happy, but then she wasn't unhappy. She wasn't anything. But I don't believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside, if only to keep the skin from collapsing. This vacant eye, listless hand, this damask cheek dusted like a doughnut with plastic powder, had to have a memory or a dream.
John Steinbeck