10 quotes found
“I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
“How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?”
“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
“I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
“I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
“There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.”
“You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.”
“What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend ...”
“A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.”
“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing o...”
