“The only way he ever did anything was if you yelled at him.”
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“But he was mostly the kind of a handsome guy that if your parents saw his picture in your Year Book, they’d right away say,
“Who’s this boy?” I mean he was mostly a Year Book kind of handsome guy.”
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“I started imitating one of those guys in the movies. In one of those musicals. I hate the movies like poison, but I get a bang imitating them.”
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“For once in my stupid life, I was really glad to see him. He took my mind off the other stuff.”
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“That guy had just about everything. Sinus trouble, pimples, lousy teeth, halitosis, crumby fingernails.”
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“Well, the thing is, I don’t want to stay at any hotels on the East Side where I might run into some acquaintances of mine. I’m traveling incognito.”
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“She was always reading, and she read very good books. She read a lot of poetry and all.”
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“New York’s terrible when somebody laughs on the street very late at night. You can hear it for miles. It makes you feel so lonesome and depressed.”
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“He was about the touchiest guy I ever met. Everything you said made him sore.”
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“In the first place, I’m sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don’t care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance. They annoy the hell out of me, if you want to know the truth. They were all right after Jesus was dead and all, but while He was alive, they were about as much use to Him as a hole in the head. All they did was keep letting Him down.”
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