1,374 Quotes by John Steinbeck

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.

There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.

So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.

The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.

In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.

I think there must have been some other girl printed somewhere in his heart, for he was a man of love and his wife was not a woman to show her feelings.

... every little boy thinks he invented sin.

Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.

New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world.