1,374 Quotes by John Steinbeck

This time last year I would have run to Sam Hamilton to talk.""Maybe both of us have got a piece of him," said Lee. Maybe that's what immortality is.

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

I've lived in a good climate, and it bores the hell out of me.

I've lived in a good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

The winter seemed reluctant to let go its bite. It hung on cold and wet and windy long after its time. And people repeated, "It's those damned big guns they're shooting off in France-- spoiling the weather in the whole world.

Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.

You can't start with a democracy. You have to work up through stuff like tyranny and monarchy first. That way people are so relieved when they get to democracy that they hang on to it.

It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.