John Steinbeck Quotes

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.

Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow.

It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.

Disclosure is the antidote to partiality and favor.

Sworn to no party, Of no sect am I; I won't keep quiet And I will not lie.

The kindly light has a brief period of shining.

Robert, you are just a transient. I have seen them come and I have seen them go and I’ll be here long after you have gone.

Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.

Tomorrow is shallow, but today is as deep as truth.

Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

Objectivity is very hard to achieve. It needs some research and patience. If you want to do something honest, you have to explore it a little longer.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.

The truth does not need to be defended.

I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater.

Ephemeral should be the default.

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

What I do and what I record only work for the moment.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

All things are only transitory.

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.