Quotes by John Steinbeck

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

"Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do."

"No one wants advice, only corroboration."

"When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable."