The Great Gatsby' [...] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [....]

You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.

But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that has them." Teddy brushed back his hair from his forehead with one hand. "I grew my own body," he said. "Nobody else did it for me. So if I grew it, I must have known how to grow it. Unconsciously, at least. I may have lost the conscious knowledge of how to grow it sometime in the last few hundred thousand years, but the knowledge is still there, because—obviously—I've used it.

Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.

She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.

Bessie: 'Why don't you get married?' Zooey: 'I like riding in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window anymore when you're married.

I thought the two ugly ones were sisters, but they got very insulted when I asked them. You could tell neither one of them wanted to look like the other one, and you couldn't blame them, but it was very amusing anyway.