Postponed pain is among the most abominable kind to experience.
People always think something's all true. I don't give a damn, except that I get bored when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am, I really do. But people never notice. P...
Or you'd just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be different in some way—I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel...
Old Luce. He was strictly a pain in the ass, but he certainly had a good vocabulary. He had the largest vocabulary of any boy at Whooton when I was there. They gave us a test.
Oh, Romeo and Juliet! Lovely! Didn’t you just love it?She certainly didn’t sound like a nun. Yes. I did. I liked it a lot. There were a few things I didn`t like about it, but it was quite moving, on t...
New York is terrible when somebody laughs on the street very late at night.
Jesus, life has its share of honorable thrills if one but keeps one’s eyes open!
I’m not going to bed after all. Somebody around here hath murdered sleep. Good for him.
It's history. It's poetry.
In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.
If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all wrapped up in one.
If you're going to go to war against the System, just do your shooting like a nice, intelligent girl ㅡ because the enemy's there, and not because you don't like his hairdo or his goddamn necktie.
I've missed you. The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all.
I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen
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'm no goddam animal. I may be a stupid, fouled-up twentieth-century son of a bitch, but I'm no animal. Don't gimme that. I'm no animal.
I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if possible, especially me.
I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national evils as bleeding gums, facial blemishes, unsightly hairs, and...
I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, an...
I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody, most of them, and maybe they're secretly all terrific whistler...