John Steinbeck

"We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it."

"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."

"A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ."

"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."

"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world."

"Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased."

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

"The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business."

"Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard."

"Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time."