"Seymour once said to me – in a crosstown bus, of all places – that all legitimate religious study must lead to unlearning the differences, the illusory differences, between boys and girls, animals and stones, day and night, heat and cold."
"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 of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it."
- The Catcher in the Rye
- Franny and Zooey
"You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes."
- Franny and Zooey
- Franny and Zooey
- The Catcher in the Rye
"This is a people shooting hat...I shoot people in this hat."
- The Catcher in the Rye