I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse.

Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.

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

I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains. -Holden Caulfield

For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study psychoanalysis in the first place.

Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.

I’m not going to bed after all. Somebody around here hath murdered sleep. Good for him.