I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost.
John SteinbeckYou can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.
John SteinbeckWhat a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately.
John SteinbeckWell, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.
John SteinbeckThe redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.
John Steinbeck