A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.

But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.

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

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money.

The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.

You never oughta drink water when it ain't runnin'.