That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any.

I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though.

In the first place, you’re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself.

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.

My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. he was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink. He wrote them on it so that he'd have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up to bat

He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement.

Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.