In my opinion, if you really want to know, half of the nastiness in the world is stirred up by people who aren't using their true egos.
I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas.
He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much.
You don't always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl.
Well. He's a very sensitive boy. He's really never been a terribly good mixer with other boys...'Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a goddamn toilet seat.
This is too grand to be said (so I’m just the man to say it), but I can’t be my brother’s brother for nothing, and I know – not always, but I know – there is no single thing I do that is more importan...
There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.
That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the...
That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.
Sometimes I see me dead in the rain.
It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.
It isn't just Wally. It could be a girl, for goodness' sake. I mean if he were a girl - somebody in my dorm, for example, - he'd have been painting scenery in some stock company all summer. Or bicycle...
If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean, you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything. The ones you're talking about don't leave a single, solita...
I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera....
I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am--I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
I never bore people I haven't known for at least a thousand years.
He looked at me with his eyes shining—yes, shining. The boy’s eyes could shine.
You beautiful little moron.