John SteinbeckThinkers

Adversity is unavoidable. To be alive at all is to have scars.

Advice is often sought merely as a guise for seeking corroboration.

Advice people only want if it agrees with what one wanted to do anyways.

A Book is like a man in that it is clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

The Camera is detestable because it is so much more sure than we are about everything.

The Camera is hateful in that it is so much more sure about everything than one can be.

The City is unimpresisve in the US. They are like badger holes ringed with trash.

The Critic is always driven by his own ambition. Time is the only critic without ambition.

Cruelty would melt away if we could learn to like ourselves, even a little.

Dreaming is done by everyone, every night, but people who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.

The Genius is a little boy chasing a butterfly up a mountain.

A Gun is a good thing to carry because a cop is too heavy.