John Steinbeck

"Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery."

"We cannot live with other people because we have not yet learned to live with ourselves."

"It is so easy to accept a thought that fills a need in one's mind."

"The great joy in life is finding one's own particular function in this universe."

"Whatever happens to me now, I will be ready."

"I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never really seen them."

"In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable."

"The ancient practice of the church to bind people together is based on love."

"I like to think that my book is a direct result of my soul being a wanderer."

"The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart."

"There is evidence by every form of study that normal man is lazy."

"Humans seem to feel that they are not enough on their own."

"Success is dangerous because we think it is a permanent condition."

"The people of the earth have killed the earth and blackened the sky."

"A man may accomplish great things if he demands much of himself and little of others."

"Those are the sad eyes of one who has seen much suffering."

"The bank is something else. The bank is like a monster."

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."

"The most important place is where you stand at this moment."

"It is invariably saddening to love something that death can touch."

"In the warp and woof of literature is where people touch the eternal."

"I have often wondered if the difference between writing and living is just a difference of approach."

"The beautiful ones are not yet born."

"Fear the time when Mankind is satisfied, when everything can be sudden and fast and efficient."

"The profession of being a writer is a very strange profession."

"We are born alone and we die alone and this has always been the case."

"Man has a tendency to accept any explanation as long as it is comforting."

"The collective power to rule is in their hands, but they do not use it."

"Perhaps a great writer must feel lonely sometimes."

"I have never believed in the virtues of the society that does not reward them."