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

Mack said reprovingly to Hughie, "Just because he doesn't run no dame naked through the streets in the daytime, you think Doc's celebrate."
"What's celebrate?" Eddie asked.
"That's when you can't get no dame," said Mack.
"I thought it was a kind of a party," said Jones.

“It was deeply a part of Lee’s kindness and understanding that man’s right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary”

I’m about to get to know Doc.
When the world becomes too much and I feel too little, there’s still Steinbeck, who sees beauty in loneliness.