Hazel used his trick. They got no starfish there?They got no ocean there said Doc.Oh! said Hazel and he cast frantically about for a peg to hang a new question on. He hated to have a conversation die...
Guy knows all about women he don’t know nothing about a woman.
For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.
Do you take pride in your hurt?' Samuel asked. 'Does it make you seem large and tragic? . . . Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience . . . there's all that fallow...
Crooks stood up from his bunk and faced her. I had enough, he said coldly. You got no rights comin' in a colored man's room. You got no rights messing around in here at all. Now you jus' get out, an'...
Charles had more respect for Adam after he knew about the prison. He felt the warmth for his brother you can feel only for one who is not perfect and therefore no target for your hatred.
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. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust a...
And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.
And here's a story you can hardly believe, but it's true, and it's funny and it's beautiful. There was a family of twelve and they were forced off the land. They had no car. They built a trailer out o...
All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.
A stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down the river.
A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself.
A man with a beard, ordering a beer milk shake in a town where he wasn’t known—they might call the police.
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think youcontrol it.
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, t...
You're not buying only junk, you're buying junked lives. And more - you'll see - you're buying bitterness.
You're jest one person, an' they's a lot of other folks. You git to your proper place. I knowed people built theirself up with sin till they figgered they was big mean shucks in the sight a the Lord....
You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.
You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.
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...