John Steinbeck

"I know this--a man got to do what he got to do. "

"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. "

"It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. "

"Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. "

"No one wants advice -- only corroboration. "