A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete.
John SteinbeckOne day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards.
John SteinbeckThe craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.
John Steinbeck[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.
John SteinbeckA town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. A town is a thing separate from all other towns alike. And a town has a whole emotion. How news travels through a town is a mystery not easily to be solved. News seems to move faster than small boys can scramble and dart to tell it, faster than women can call it over the fences.
John Steinbeck