Risa Davis

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.”
― John Steinbeck

“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America