"Je mehr sich die Dinge ndern, desto mehr bleibt alles beim alten."

"Jokes, secrets, complicities; a glance here, a word there: that is their way of being together, of being apart."

"He tends to trust pictures more than he trusts words. Not because pictures cannot lie but because, once they leave the darkroom, they are fixed, immutable."

"I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind?"

"... but what do slow and fast matter any more?"

"I’m not going to bed after all. Somebody around here hath murdered sleep. Good for him."

"It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window."

"You take a really sleepy man, Esm , and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac—with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s intact."

"If a body catch a body coming through the rye."

"Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it."

"She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had reached puberty."

"I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window."

"You can't exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes."

"In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together."

"He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse him of having created an ugly world."

"Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos."

"I don't care if it's a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse."

"You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you."

"In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw."

"I just hope that one day - preferably when we’re both blind drunk - we can talk about it."

"Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly"

"I just never felt so fantastically rocky in my entire life."

"It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question."

"She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations."