But I'll tell you a terrible secret- Are you listening to me? There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. That includes your Professor Tupper, buddy. And all his goddam cousins by the d...
And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
All these angels start coming out of the boxes and everywhere, guys carrying crucifixes and stuff all over the place, and the whole bunch of them - thousands of them - singing Come All Ye Faithful lik...
— Аз не съм твърде общителен антураж — каза тя и ме погледна да види дали знам значението на тази дума. Аз с нищо не й дадох да разбере това. — Но дойдох при вас само защото ми се видяхте крайно самот...
You never get to sit next to the window any more when you're married.
While the consequences are often quite hellish, I am absolutely and perhaps permanently against ignoring books recommended from the heart by very nice people and strangers; it is too risky and inhuman...
Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game all right – I’ll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren’t any hot-shots, then what’s a game abou...
Sicché andò a finire che feci il tema sul guantone da baseball di mio fratello Allie. […] Mio fratello Allie, dunque aveva quel guantone da prenditore, il sinistro. Lui era mancino. La cosa descrittiv...
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
One other thing I just thought of. One time, in this movie, Jane did something that just about knocked me out. The newsreel was on or something, and all of a sudden I felt this hand on the back of my...
Oh, God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I think people are plotting to make me happy.
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
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 not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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...
In the first place, you’re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself.
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...
I've met the girl. She's a zero in my opinion but terrific-looking. I don't actually know that she's a zero. I mean she hardly said two words the night I met her. Just sat and smiled and smoked, so it...