You can't exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes.

Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl.

Zooey said... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody good-bye in the morning thinking they were your own family.

Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.

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

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.

I could happily lie down and die sometimes.