Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. – John Steinbeck
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. – John Steinbeck
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. – John Steinbeck
The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die. – John Steinbeck
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers. – Imelda Marcos