But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.
Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out?
You know that apple Adam ate in the Garden of Eden, referred to in the Bible?' he asked. 'You know what was in that apple? Logic. Logic and intellectual stuff. That was all that was in it. So—this is...
Women kill me. They really do. I don't mean I'm oversexed or anything like that—although I am quite sexy. I just like them, I mean. They're always leaving their goddam bags out in the middle of the ai...
This is a people shooting hat, I said. I shoot people in this hat.
There are nice things in the world- and I mean nice things. We're all such morons to get so sidetracked.
The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling.
That's the whole trouble. You can't even find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up a...
Our foyer has a funny smell that doesn't smell like anyplace else. I don't know what the hell it is. It isn't cauliflower and it isn't perfume—I don't know what the hell it is—but you always know you'...
My father wrote beautifully, Esmé interrupted. I’m saving a number of his letters for posterity.I said that sounded like a very good idea. I happened to be looking at her enormous-faced, chrono-graphi...
My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. he was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhe...
Listen, he said. If you was a fish, Mother Nature'd take care of you, wouldn't she? Right? You don't think them fish just die when it gets to be winter, do ya?No, but--You're goddam right they don't
Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip!
Kimse beni tanımasın, ben kimseyi tanımayayım, bu yeterdi. Düşündüm, sağır-dilsizmişim gibi numara yapardım. Böylece, hiç kimseyle o salak konuşmaları yapmak zorunda kalmazdım. Biri bana bir şey demek...
It's really hard to be roomates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs--if yours are the really good ones and theirs aren't. You think if they're intelligent and all, the other pers...
It means that every man, woman, and child over the age, let us say, of twentyone or thirty, at the very outside, should never do anything extremely important or crucial in their life without first con...
It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.
In New York, boy, money really talks - I’m not kidding.
If you want to know the truth, I don't know what I think about it. I'm sorry I told so many people about it. About all I know is, I sort of miss everybody I told about.[...] It's funny. Don't ever tel...
If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate everybody in the world, I swear you did.