Well, I git enough sorrow. I like to git away from it.

Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

[Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing.

For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.

Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.

But you can't start over Only a boy can start over You and me Why, we're all that's been