There isnโt a nightclub in the world that you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and get drunk. Or unless youโre with some girl that really knocks you out.
J. D. SalingerYou asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.
J. D. SalingerThey love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way.
J. D. SalingerIf you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean, you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything. The ones you're talking about don't leave a single, solitary thing beautiful. All that maybe the slightly better ones do is sort of get inside your head and leave something there, but just because they do, just because they know how to leave something, it doesn't have to be a poem for heaven's sake. It may just be some kind of terribly fascinating, syntaxy droppings--excuse the expression. Like Manlius and Esposito and all those poor men.
J. D. Salinger