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...
I don't care where an actor acts. It can be in summer stock, it can be over a radio, it can be over television, it can be in a goddam Broadway theatre, complete with the most fashionable, most well-fe...
I don't care if it's a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse.
I believe I essentially remain what I have always been--a narrator, but one with extremely pressing personal needs. I want to introduce, I want to describe, I want to distribute mementos, amulets, I w...
He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement.
He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving his car. That killed me. I just see the big phony bastard shifting into first gear and asking Jesus to send him a few more stiffs.
Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
God almighty, Franny, he said. 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. Keep him in mind if...
For a psychoanalyst to be any good with Franny at all, he'd have to be a pretty peculiar type. I don't know. He'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study...
Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no sense of humor.
Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be a bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it. All you have to do to depress somebody is giv...
Ah, Sharon Lipschutz, said the young man. How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire.
إنّ الكتب التي تُثيرُ إهتمامي بالفعل هي تلك التي عندما أنتهي من قراءتها أرغب في أن يكون المؤلف صديقاً عزيزاً لي وأستطيع أنّ أخابره بالتليفون في أي وقت شئت .
هیچ وقت به هیشکی چیزی نگو. اگه بگی دلت برا همه تنگ می شه.
استرادلیتر همیشه از آدم تقاضای لطف بزرگی داشت. آدمهای خوشگل یا آدمهایی که خیال میکنند خیلی زرنگند همیشه از آدم تقاضای لطف بزرگی دارند. انها چون برای خودشان میمیرند خیال میکنند دیگران هم برایشان میمیر...
This sentence I'm reading is terrific i can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood. He didn't get it, though. He started walking around the room again, picking up all my personal stuff, and Stradlate...
If somebody at least listens it not too bad
Your heart, Bessie, is an autumn garage.
You hate to tell new stuff to somebody around a hundred years old. They don't like to hear it.