The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
John SteinbeckI suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.
John SteinbeckI like a lot of talk in a book and I don't like to have nobody tell me what the guy that's talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks
John SteinbeckI think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy.
John SteinbeckMen who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.
John SteinbeckYou're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.
John SteinbeckAnd the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.
John SteinbeckAnd now the group was welded to one thing, one unit, so that in the dark the eyes of the people were inward, and their minds played in other times, and their sadness was like rest, like sleep.
John SteinbeckI've never been content to pass a stone without looking under it. And it is a black disappointment to me that I can never see the far side of the moon.
John SteinbeckOne day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards.
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