When you know a friend is there you do not go to see him. Then he's gone and you blast your conscience to shreds that you did not see him.
John SteinbeckThe theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.
John SteinbeckIf you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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