I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“You don't even know where I'm going." "I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Niagara Falls is very nice. I'm very glad I saw it, because from now on if I am asked whether I have… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“In the beginning of this record i tried to explore the nature of journeys, how they are things in themselves, each one… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. An all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“In all my travels I saw very little real poverty, I mean the grinding terrifying poorness of the Thirties. That at least… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I’d think there are degrees of greatness,” Adam said. “I don’t think so,” said Samuel. “That would be like saying there is a little… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in his whole… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“You come back a changed man. Samuel, you don’t change him. He changes you. I can see the look of him in your face.”… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image