I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.
John SteinbeckWherever theyโs a fight so hungry people can eat, Iโll be there. Wherever theyโs a cop beatinโ up a guy, Iโll be there. If Casy knowed, why, Iโll be in the way guys yell when theyโre mad anโโIโll be in the way kids laugh when theyโre hungry nโ they know supperโs ready. Anโ when our folks eat the stuff they raise anโ live in the houses they buildโwhy, Iโll be there.
John SteinbeckI think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.
John SteinbeckIt is customary for the recipient of this award to offer personal or scholarly comment on the nature and the direction of literature. At this particular time, however, I think it would be well to consider the high duties and the responsibilities of the makers of literature.
John SteinbeckTeaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and very precious.
John Steinbeck