My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.

To be alive at all is to have scars.

There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen.

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

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.