You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.

Maybe there's a trapdoor under my chair, and I'll just disappear.

It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.

God, I wish you could have been there.

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.

But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men, all of us talking, writing, painting, making movies of heroes, and cockroaches and foxholes and blood, then future generations will always be doomed to future Hitlers. It's never occurred to boys to have contempt for wars, to point to soldiers' pictures in history books, laughing at them. If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.