The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little โwhyโ.
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 SteinbeckOne man was so mad at me that he ended his letter, "Beware. You will never get out of this world alive."
John SteinbeckIt would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be loved without satiety.
John Steinbeck