My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood in titanic piscine war. But sometimes I do like a couple of cooperative fish of frying size.
John SteinbeckItโs all fine to say, โTime will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forgetโโand things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.
John SteinbeckI remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the granite backbone of a continent. I saw in my mind escarpments rising into the clouds, a kind of natural Great Wall of China.
John SteinbeckGive me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.
John Steinbeck