“On the forest floor was the LVR's smoldering ceiling panel, just lying there like the lid of a sardine can that had been eagerly and violently thrown away by someone who very much liked sardines.”
“When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. ”
“Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.”
“The cowboy has now gone to worlds invisible; the wind has blown away the white ashes of his campfires; but the empty sardine box lies rusting over the face of the Western earth.”
“Some things can't be ravished. You can't ravish a tin of sardines. And so many women are like that: and men. But the earth...!”
“Hard to call it a party without sardines.”