for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.
John SteinbeckThou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not, and they are the ones the world lives by. It is true of the spirit as it is true of battles — only the winners are remembered.
John SteinbeckLike most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.
John SteinbeckWe have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that haters of clarity have nothing to say, have observed nothing, have no clear picture of even their own fields?
John Steinbeck