If a body catch a body coming through the rye.

Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are... Sex is something I just don't understand. I swear to God.

She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.

Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.

Oh, this happiness is strong stuff.

Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead?

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