It is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is abysmally ignorant. He can't read, can't drive a car, and has no grasp of mathematics. But in his own field of endeavor, which he is now practicing, the slow, imperial smelling over and anointing on an area, he has no peer. Of course his horizons are limited, but how wide are mine?
John SteinbeckFella 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 SteinbeckThis was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.
John SteinbeckDear Lord,' he said. 'let me be like Aron. Donโt make me mean. I donโt want to be. If you will let everybody like me, why, Iโll give you anything in the world, and if I havenโt got it, why, Iโll go for to get it. I donโt want to be mean. I donโt want to be lonely. For Jesusโ sake, Amen.
John Steinbeck