God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be.

Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.

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 don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.