You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.
John SteinbeckI had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton woool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood into a kind of spiritual and physical semi-invalidism. In this they are encouraged by wives and relatives, and it's such a sweet trap.
John SteinbeckI have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.
John Steinbeck