Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies
Lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn’t interest you most.
I'm profoundly attracted to classical Zen literature, I have the gall to lecture on it and the literature of Mahayana Buddhism one night a week at college, but my life itself couldn't very conceivably...
I'm always saying 'Glad to've met you' to somebody I'm not at all glad I met.
I don't hate too many guys. What I may do, I may hate them for a little while, like this guy Stradlater I knew at Pencey, and this other boy, Robert Ackley. I hate them once in a while—I admit it—but...
All these angels start coming out of the boxes and everywhere, guys carrying crucifixes and stuff all over the place, and the whole bunch of them - thousands of them - singing Come All Ye Faithful lik...
İnsan bazı şeyleri tam hatırlayamıyor..... Hatırlayamayışımın nedeni; felaket üzgündüm. Birşeylere üzülüyorsam, tuvalete gitmem gerekse bile gitmem. Üzülmekten gidemem. Üzülmeyi bırakıp gidemem.
You talk about piling up treasure - money, property, culture, knowledge, and so on and so on. In going ahead with the Jesus Prayer - just let me finish, now please - in going ahead with the Jesus Pray...
You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
Walt, at about eleven, had a routine of looking at Seymour's wrists and telling him to take off his sweater. Take off your sweater, hey, Seymour. Go ahead, hey. It's warm in here. S. would beam back a...
Though we've talked and talked and talked, we've all agreed not to say a word.
They're quite touchy about anything like that, especially my father. They're nice and all-I'm not saying that-but they're also touchy as hell.
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
One thing? One thing I like? Okay.
Oh, God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I think people are plotting to make me happy.
I see you are looking at my feet, he said to her when car was in motion.I beg your pardon? said the woman.I said I see you're looking at my feet.I beg your pardon. I happened to be looking at the floo...
I purely came over because I thought you looked extremely lonely. You have an extremely sensitive face.
I mean if thousands of little kids are running and they do not look where they are going, I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day, I just be the catcher in the rye an...
But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.