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“Never be ashamed to admit you were wrong. It only shows you are smarter today than you were yesterday.”
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“I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all… 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 do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“To fill the hour,—that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.”
― Essays: First and Second Series
― Essays: First and Second Series
“In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite happy in a hermit's cave, living on gruel, if someone else would make the gruel. Gruel, like so many other things, is beyond me.”
― Bluebeard's Egg
― Bluebeard's Egg
“Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers.”
― Bluebeard's Egg
― Bluebeard's Egg
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