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.

Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.

I used to think she was quite intelligent , in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about the theater and plays and literature and all that stuff. If somebody knows quite a lot about all those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they're really stupid or not.

Money always ends up making you blue.

Happiness is a solid and joy is a liquid.

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

I just hope that one day - preferably when we’re both blind drunk - we can talk about it.