"After I got across the road, I felt like I was sort of disappearing. It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road".

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote is was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it".

"Sex is something I just don't understand".

"I always pick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something".

"It always smelled like it was raining outside, even it if wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world".

"Every time I came to the end of a block and stepped of the goddam curb, I had this feeling that I'd never get to the other side of the street".

"I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes".

"I thought it was "if a body catch a body"', I said. "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 on the edge of some crazy cliff. what I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. that's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy".