Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.

It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.

Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.

I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher In the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf out of their reach.

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

The sentence im reading is terrific.

If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me.