"Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped?"
John Steinbeck was an American novelist whose works portrayed social and economic hardship in twentieth-century America. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.