My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.

From my father's point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government.

My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular the biographies of those people who had risked their lives, their fortunes, and their worldly honor to defend the rights and prerogatives of those who were powerless to defend themselves.

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them.

One of my concerns for my children is growing up with your parents having a lot of money.

I didn't have any money. I had a sense of terrible loss. But what I also had was a fire in my belly. I wasn't going to go back to waiting tables. I felt I had to be better at fronting a band.

It makes no sense economically that public money goes to help foreign workers and migrants in a region where unemployment is higher than national average.