I've missed you. The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all.
I'm the one flunking out of this goddam place, and you're asking me to write you a goddam composition.
I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
I'm not trying to tell you, he said that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so.But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and cr...
I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if possible, especially me.
I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age . sometimes I act a lot older than I am- I rally do - but people never notice it . people never notice anything.
How would you know you weren't being a phony? The trouble is you wouldn't.
How I worship her simplicity, her terrible honesty. How I rely on it.Как боготворя нейната непосредственост, нейната невероятна честност! Как разчитам на тази честност!
But while I was sitting down, I saw something that drove me crazy. Somebody'd written 'fuck you' on the wall. It drove me damn near crazy. I thought how Phoebe and all the other little kids would see...
But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am.
Hey, listen, I said. You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That little lake? By any chance, do you happen to know where they go, the ducks, when it gets all frozen over? D...
— 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're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion....
You can say the Jesus Prayer from now till doomsday, but if you don't realize that the only thing that counts in the religious life is detachment, I don't see how you ever move an inch. Detachment, bu...
What I think is, you're supposed to leave somebody alone if he's at least being interesting and he's getting all excited about something. I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nic...
Tilting his head back he slowly released an enormous quantity of smoke from his mouth and drew it up through his nostrils. He continued to smoke in this French-inhale style. Very probably, it was not...
They sang without instrumental accompaniment--or, more accurately in their case, without any interference. Their voices were melodious and unsentimental, almost to the point where a somewhat more deno...
That´s something else that gives me a royal pain. I mean if you´re good at writing compositions and somebody starts talking about commas. Stradlater was always doing that. He wanted you to think that...
That's something that drives me crazy. When people say something twice that way, after you admit it the first time.