More Quotes by John Steinbeck
To be alive at all is to have scars.
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.
The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.
I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.