It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John SteinbeckUnless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
John SteinbeckJust as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.
John SteinbeckWhy do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone.
John Steinbeck