Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or….

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….

Bessie: 'Why don't you get married?' Zooey: 'I like riding in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window anymore when you're married..

I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious atheist. I probably a….

But don't tell me I'm not sensitive to beauty. That's my Achilles' heel, and don't you forget it. To me, everything is beautiful. Show me a pink suns….

I thought the two ugly ones were sisters, but they got very insulted when I asked them. You could tell neither one of them wanted to look like the ot….

If you weren't around, I'd probably be someplace way the hell off. In the woods or some goddamn place. You're the only reason I'm around, practically..

She really started to cry, and the next thing I knew, I was kissing her all over - anywhere - her eyes, her nose, her forehead, her eyebrows, and all….

This is a people shooting hat," I said. "I shoot people in this hat..

There isn't anyone anywhere who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know — listen to ….

Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid..

But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am..

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly..

I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, ….

I feel overwhelmingly grateful to them, but I don't know what to do with their invisible gifts..

He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to ac….

Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos..

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 peop….

He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor..

How old are you? I asked her. "Old enough to know better." she said..

If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more..