John Steinbeck Quotes

Money's easy to make if it's money you want. But with few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

Please try not to need me. That’s the worst bait of all to a lonely man.

At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. What do I believe in? What must I fight for and what must I fight against?

They had long ago found out that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.

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.

Nearly everyone has had a box of secret pain, shared with no one.

Everything seems to work with a recurring rhythm except life. There is only one birth and only one death. Nothing else is like that.

We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins.

If we climb this high I swear we'll never die.

I don't ever drink alone. It's not much fun. And I don't think I will until I am an alcoholic.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid stable business.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them and pretty soon you have a dozen.