“In the dark the other night I wrote in my head a whole dialogue between
St. George and the Dragon. Very close relatives those two. They are eternally tied together – actually two parts of one whole… So St. George must always kill the dragon and it must be repeated because if the dragon were finally killed, there would be no St. George – only a lonely man looking for something to do.”
– John Steinbeck, in a private letter to his friend, Pascal Covici