If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

- John Steinbeck

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.

- John Steinbeck

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

- John Steinbeck

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

- John Steinbeck

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

- John Steinbeck

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

- John Steinbeck

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

- John Steinbeck

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

- John Steinbeck

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.

- John Steinbeck

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

- John Steinbeck