I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy. (John Steinbeck)

I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy.

John Steinbeck

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