Did you see more glass?

The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

I kept picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye... If they're running and they don't look where they're going, I have to come out from somewhere and catch them.

You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.

I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

But it wasn't just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.

In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.