"I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves. Break the cycle."

"Right now I'm on my God flow, you know what I mean? I got Job 1:21 tattooed on my chest."

"I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith."

"The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman."

"My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities."

"I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin."

"The catcher in the rye... that's all I really want to be..."

"One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of."

"Why's it so sunny?" she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy," he said."

"He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you. God I hate that stuff."

"I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life."

"The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly."

"Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the same energy to stay well and busy?"

"The little girl on the plane Who turned her doll's head around To look at me."

"Oh, I don’t know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don’t know. The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It’s more interesting and all."

"Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row."

"It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true."

"Sleep tight, ya morons!"

"I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it."

"I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you."

"Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell."

"Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions."

"I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy."

"I love you to pieces, distraction, etc."