How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive?
John SteinbeckCritics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.
John SteinbeckThe dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and he didn't want to be somewhere else - one of the few contented people I met in my whole journey.
John SteinbeckThen it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer.
John Steinbeck