Cannery Row quotes

How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise—the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream—be set down alive?

And perhaps that might be the way to write this book—to open the page and to let the stories crawl in by themselves.

Lee Chong is more than a Chinese grocer. He must be.

the Virtues, the Graces, the Beauties of the hurried mangled craziness of Monterey

He wears a beard and his face is half Christ and half satyr and his face tells the truth.