Then I tried to get them in a little intelligent conversation, but it was practically impossible.
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
The rest of us, he said, we are outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.
Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
Sometimes I talk a little loud when I get excited.
Seymour once said to me - in a crosstown bus, of all places - that all legitimate religious study must lead to unlearning the differences, the illusory differences, between boys and girls, animals and...
Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are... Sex is something I just don't understand. I swear to God.
Nobody knows how to do it except the Egyptians. Even modern science.
Mary Jane. Listen. Please, Eloise said, sobbing. You remember our freshman year, and I had that brown-and-yellow dress I bought in Boise, and Miriam Ball told me nobody wore those kind of dresses in N...
Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.
Just go to bed, now. Quickly. Quickly and slowly.
It's 'If a body meet a body coming through the rye'! old Phoebe said. It's a poem. By Robert Burns.I know it's a poem by Robert Burns.She was right, though. It is If a body meet a body coming through...
It is possible that I was mistaken and I do not willfully invite any disillusions at this point in my life. I am willing to stay in the dark.
It didn't exactly depress me to think about it, but it didn't make me feel gay as hell either. Certain things should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in those big glass cases...
I was surrounded by jerks. I'm not kidding.
I was a nice girl, she pleaded, wasn't I?
I think that one of these days, he said, you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you.
I know. I'm very hard to talk to. I realize that.
I knew a lot of guys at Pencey I thought were a lot handsomer than Stradlater, but they wouldn't look handsome if you saw their pictures in the Year Book. They'd look like they had big noses or their...