I like a lot of talk in a book and I don't like to have nobody tell me what the guy that's talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
John SteinbeckIn early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.
John SteinbeckYou must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.
John SteinbeckIt is strange how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always had it, but I know it isn't thinking I do there, but feeling and experiencing and remembering. It's a safety place. Everyone must have one, although I never heard a man tell of it.
John Steinbeck