I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining-- small mining. You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.
John SteinbeckThe study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.
John SteinbeckThe quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.
John Steinbeck