I always pick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of trying to make me happy
These intellectual guys don't like to have an intellectual conversation with you unless they're running the whole thing.
I've read this same sentence about twenty times since you came in."Anybody else except Ackley would've taken the goddamn hint. Not him though..."What the hellya reading?""Goddamn book."He shoved my bo...
I'm sick to death of being the heavy in everybody's life.
Boy, it began to rain like a bastard. In buckets, I swear to God. All the parents and mothers and everybody went over and stood right under the roof of the carrousel, so they wouldn't get soaked to th...
You take a very handsome guy, or a guy that thinks he's a real hot-shot, and they're always asking you to do them a big favor. Just because they're crazy about themself, they think you're crazy about...
But you don't have to be a bad guy to depress somebody-you can be a good guy and do it.
I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.
I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it?
As a matter of simple logic, there's no difference at all, that I can see, between the man who's greedy for material treasure —or even intellectual treasure— and the man who's greedy for spiritual tre...
I like it when somebody gets excited about something.
I took her dress over to the closet and hung it up. It was funny. It made me feel sort of sad when I hung it up. I thought of her going in a store and buying it, and nobody in the store knowing she wa...
I've never seen such a bunch of apple-eaters.
That's depressing, when somebody says please to you.
... I was feeling so depressed I didn't even think. That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think
Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn't necessarily affect the transformation. She was th...
The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding
Unfortunately, here as elsewhere on this touching planet, imitation is the watchword and prestige the highest ambition.
You know Sven? The man who takes care of the gym?' he asked. He waited till he got a nod from Nicholson. 'Well, if Sven dreamed tonight that his dog died, he'd have a very, very bad night's sleep, bec...