John Steinbeck Quotes
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… we've got so many laws you can't breathe without breaking something.
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It 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.
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Not only the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.
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I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love.
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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
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Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.
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He didn't believe in psychiatrists, he said. But actually he did believe in them, so much that he was afraid of them.
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These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
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Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.
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There's nobody as lonely as an all-married man.
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I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
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No one wants advice - only corroboration.
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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.
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No little appetite or pain, no carelessness or meanness in him escaped her; no thought or dream or longing in him ever reached her. And yet several times in her life she had seen the stars.
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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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His guard was up now and he wasn't listening; he was only angry because here was a world he could not enter and so he had to disbelieve in its existence. He fell back on the world he knew.
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I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.
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'Well, that glove's fulla vaseline.''Vaseline? What the hell for?'Well, I tell ya what - Curley says he's keepin' that hand soft for his wife.'
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There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.
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Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
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You ain't worth a greased lack pin to ram you into hell.
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I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.