Quotes by John Steinbeck

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

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

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.

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

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

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