Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
You know what it is? San Francisco is a golden handcuff with the key thrown away. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“When I was a child growing up in Salinas we called San Francisco “the City”. Of course it was the only city… — 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
“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share
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
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
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
“Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too. He found that he had started to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
