On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.
John SteinbeckEventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.
John SteinbeckI ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.
John SteinbeckA plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realitiesโnever to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.
John SteinbeckThe warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul.
John SteinbeckHe had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. Juana, in her woman's soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it. And yet it was this thing that made him a man, half insane and half god, and Juana had need of a man; she could not live without a man.
John Steinbeck