But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.
John SteinbeckYou can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.
John SteinbeckChange was everywhere. People were gone, or changed, and that was almost like being gone.
John SteinbeckI have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in the production of a book; it's like childbirth. And, like childbirth, one forgets the pains immediately so that when you come to write another one you dare to take it up again. Some precious anesthesia sees you through.
John Steinbeck