One 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 SteinbeckEventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.
John SteinbeckA good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.
John SteinbeckThe comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.
John SteinbeckMisfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.
John SteinbeckIt has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck