I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

There isn’t a nightclub in the world that you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and get drunk. Or unless you’re with some girl that really knocks you out.

Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and all. Then I’d crawl back up to my room and call up Jane and have her come over and bandage up my guts. I pictured her holding a cigarette for me to smoke while I was bleeding and all. The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I’m not kidding.

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

I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains. -Holden Caulfield

If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me.