Occupation: Writer Birth: January 1, 1919 Death: January 27, 2010
Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row..
if somebody at least listens it not too bad.
I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger..
The catcher in the rye... that's all I really want to be..
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy..
All morons hate it when you call them a moron..
I live alone (but catless, I'd like everybody to know)..
It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes..
I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake..
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me..
Give me an honest con man any day..
What I think is, you're supposed to leave somebody alone if he's at least being interesting and he's getting all excited about something. I like it w….
Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason..
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 ….
Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?.
You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes..
You can't exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes..
... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please..
It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it..
I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though..
If you can't, or won't, think of Seymour, then you go right ahead and call in some ignorant psychoanalyst. You just do that. You just call in some an….