A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities — never to b… - John Steinbeck

[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things — property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his cities and his factories, in his business and job and art. But having projected himself into these external complexities, he is them. His house, his automobile are a part of him and a large part of him. This is beautifully demonstrated by a thing doctors know — that when a man loses his possessions a very common result is sexual impotence.

I began to formulate a new law describing the relationship of protection to despondency: A sad soul can kill you quicker — far quicker — than a germ.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. I remember a man in Salinas who in his middle years traveled to Honolulu and back, and that journey continued for the rest of his life. We could watch him in his rocking chair on his front porch, his eyes squinted, half-closed, endlessly traveling to Honolulu.