Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the same energy to stay well and busy?

Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a toilet seat.

Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?

That's something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't.

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.

There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.

The world is full of actors pretending to be human