To a God Unknown

by John Steinbeck

“What I feel or think can kill no ghosts nor gods.

I can have neither good luck nor bad luck. I can have no knowledge of any good or bad. Even a pure true feeling of the difference between pleasure and pain is denied me. All things are one, and all a part of me.”

Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead.

I am the land.”

“I should have known,” he whispered. “I am the rain.”

“I am the land,” he said, “and I am the rain.