It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.
John SteinbeckI think there must have been some other girl printed somewhere in his heart, for he was a man of love and his wife was not a woman to show her feelings.
John SteinbeckEvening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.
John SteinbeckHe said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.
John SteinbeckIt is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does not lead to knowing. A child's world spreads only a little beyond his understanding while that of a great scientist thrusts outward immeasurably. An answer is invariably the parent of a great family of new questions. So we draw worlds and fit them like tracings against the world about us, and crumple them when we find they do not fit and draw new ones.
John Steinbeck