I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost.
John SteinbeckTo the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.
John SteinbeckThis was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.
John SteinbeckIt is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.
John Steinbeck