“...Jezebel the nun, who violently knits...”

“When You Cease To Exist, Then Who Will You Blame?”

“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.”

“With your sheet-metal memory of Cannery Row, and your magazine-husband who one day just had to go. And your gentleness now, which you just can't help but show - who among them do you think would employ you? Now you stand with your thief, you're on his parole, with your holy medallion which your fingertips fold. And your saintlike face and your ghostlike soul - oh, who among them do you think could destroy you?”

“No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke,There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.”

“Sweet Goddess, born of a blinding light and a changing wind, don't be modest - you know who you are and where you've been.”

“The P’lice Department hounded him, they called him Mr. Smith. They got him on conspiracy, they were never quite sure who with. ”