They successfully combined piracy and puritanism, which aren't so unlike when you come right down to it. Both had a strong dislike for opposition and both had a roving eye for other people's property.
John SteinbeckIt is strange how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always had it, but I know it isn't thinking I do there, but feeling and experiencing and remembering. It's a safety place. Everyone must have one, although I never heard a man tell of it.
John SteinbeckI've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
John SteinbeckIf you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone.
John Steinbeck