It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.

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

Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip!

I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher In the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf out of their reach.

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all wrapped up in one.

It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.