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

Then the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she's fall off the goddam horse, but I didn't say or do anything. The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it is bad to say anything to them.

Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.

Take most people, they are crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, they are always talking about have many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that is even newer. I do not even like old cars. . . . I'd rather have a horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.