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.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.