She worries over the way her love for me comes and goes, appears and disappears. She doubts its reality simply because it isn't as steadily pleasurable as a kitten. God knows it is sad. The human voic...
She was always reading, and she read very good books.
She cried for fully five minutes. She cried without trying to suppress any of the noisier manifestations of grief and confusion, with all the convulsive throat sounds that a hysterical child makes whe...
Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next. Is he ever wrong?
Postponed pain is among the most abominable kind to experience.
One of the thousand reasons I quit going to the theater when I was about twenty was that I resented like hell filing out of the theater just because some playwright was forever slamming down his silly...
My opinions are all too frequently too damn harsh for words.
My lips were quivering slightly, like two fools.Устните ми потрепваха като двама глупаци.
Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.
Los que de verdad me vuelven loco son esos libros que cuando acabas de leerlos piensas que ojalá el autor fuera amigo tuyo y pudieras llamarle por teléfono cuando quisieras.
Last month, Dean Sheeter (whose name usually transports Franny when I mention it) approached me with his gracious smile and bull whip, and I am now lecturing to the faculty, their wives, and a few opp...
Just get sick sometime and go visit yourself, and you'll find out how tactless you are!
It's nice when somebody tells you about their uncle. Especially when they start out telling you about their father's farm and then all of a sudden get more interested in their uncle.
It's history. It's poetry.
I've read this same sentence about twenty times since you came in.
I'd swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate it. I wouldn't even want them to clap for me. People always clap for the wrong...
I thought you told me Jimmy Jimmereeeno was run over and killed.What?You heard me, Eloise said. Why are you sleeping way over here?Because, said Ramona.Because why? Ramona, I don't feel like--Because...
I privately say to you old friend (unto you, really, I'm afraid), please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parenthesis: (((( )))). I suppose, most unflorally, I truly mean th...
I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go...
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.