Sometimes I see me dead in the rain.

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.

It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years.

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row.

I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.