John Steinbeck

“I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?”

“It is the nature of a man as he grows older... to protest against change, particular change for the better.”

“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.”

“Must the hunger become anger and the anger fury before anything will be done?”

“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”