The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding

It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques.

I live alone (but catless, I'd like everybody to know).

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.

The little girl on the plane Who turned her doll's head around To look at me.

Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.

Just go to bed, now. Quickly. Quickly and slowly.