Where do the ducks go in the winter?

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.

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 when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.

It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

The existence of God, the why of life, was all that really only a question of glands?

It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.