Occupation: Writer Birth: January 1, 1919 Death: January 27, 2010
Money always ends up making you blue..
For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study psychoanalysis in th….
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin..
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 ge….
I could happily lie down and die sometimes..
I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory i….
I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immed….
I was surrounded by jerks. I'm not kidding..
I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood..
If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable..
I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete - that's what scares me..
I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy..
I submit that Zooey's face was close to being a wholly beautiful face. As such, it was of course vulnerable to the same variety of glibly undaunted a….
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding..
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 whe….
If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history.….
Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children..
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does..
She's quite intelligent, in my stupidity..
If you're not in the mood, you can't do that stuff right..
The little girl on the plane Who turned her doll's head around To look at me..