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 »
Well may Mr. [David] Garrick be so celebrated, so universally admired--I had not any idea of so great a performer. Such ease! such... vivacity in his manner! such grace in his motions! such fire and meaning in his eyes!--I could hardly believe he had studied a written part, for every word seemed uttered from the impulse of the moment. ... his voice--so clear, so melodious, yet so wonderfully various in its tones!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As we meet here at Camp David we ask people of all faiths to pray with us that peace and justice may result from these deliberatio...ns.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All of us recognize the great benefits to our own nation and to the world of a strong and progressive Iran. Your support of the Ca...mp David accords and your encouragement of the leaders who are or may be involved in consummating the peace effort would be very valuable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nichols [the money lender]: "In this sharing and living as one family that you talk so much about, [who] has conferred the most ob...ligations?" David: "In all our transactions with each other, I believe the word obligations was never once thought of by either of us." Nichols: "But many a man has come to me to mortgage his last foot of land, and all his complaint has been of ingratitude from those he had obliged." David: "You don't speak our language, sir." Here Nichols sneers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »