A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.
John SteinbeckThe sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.
John SteinbeckThere's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy
John SteinbeckHis ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.
John SteinbeckA day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline again, but in texture and mood, in tone and meaning, warped by a thousand factors of season, of heat or cold, of still or multi winds, torqued by odors, tastes, and the fabrics of ice or grass, of bud or leaf or black-drawn naked limbs. And as a day changes so do its subjects, bugs and birds, cates, dogs, butterflies and people.
John Steinbeck