“As to the question as to what I mean by — or what my philosophy is — I haven’t the least idea. And if I told you one, it wouldn’t be true. I don’t like people to be hurt or hungry or unnecessarily sad. It’s just about as simple as that.”
- John Steinbeck, in response to a graduate student’s thesis questionnaire, 1938.
- John Steinbeck, in response to a graduate student’s thesis questionnaire, 1938.