Status Updates From Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"what I like about it this way is you never know what kind of drunk you're going to get", he said. " You take whiskey, you more or less know what you'll do. A fighting guy fights and a crying guy cries. But this
---" he said magnanimously--- "why you don't know whether it'll run you up a pine tree or start you swimming to Santa Cruz"