Emily

“Anything that just costs money is cheap.”
― John Steinbeck

“We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden