John Steinbeck Quotes

I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

To be alive at all is to have scars.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

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

It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.