1,374 Quotes by John Steinbeck

Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?

I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America - a ridiculous situation.

Texas is not a state - it's a state of mind.

He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.

Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we never hear of them. Such a life doesn't demand attention. Only the people who get the good or bad runs.

I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.

How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive?

And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.

Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain ...