If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood... was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all.... If they're running and they don't lo...ok 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt a...nybody most of them, and maybe they're all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 don...e 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. That doesn't happen much, though.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »