Quotes from John Steinbeck

The warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul.

I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.

The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.

I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were.

Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.

...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.

He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.

But a man needs company.

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

Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.

Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.

Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.

I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.

I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down.

Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.

A man who gets few letters does not open one lightly.

I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.

This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.

For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.

Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money.

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms

I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but in common with millions I did dislike hunger and cold.

Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.

At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars.