When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway. Kino sighed with satisfaction - and that was conversation.

A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.

Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood in titanic piscine war. But sometimes I do like a couple of cooperative fish of frying size.

He never forgot anything but he never bothered to arrange his memories. -Hazel, Cannery Row

You can't slice up morals.

Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.