“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.” John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck
American author

John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was an American author. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception”. Wikipedia
Born: February 27, 1902, Salinas, California, United States
Died: December 20, 1968, New York City, New York, United States
Plays: Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath
Education: Stanford University (1919–1925), Salinas High School (1919)

Quotes
A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ.
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.