Derek Knight

“The silence fell again. Samuel waited for some speech to start up, knowing in advance that it would not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden by John Steinbeck: A Timeless Tale of Family, Free Will, and the Eternal Struggle Between Good and Evil

“Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.”
― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“You hate to tell new stuff to somebody around a hundred years old.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye