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When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go.

Det som kjennetegner et umodent menneske, er at han vil dø en ærerik død for en sak, mens det som kjennetegner et modent menneske, er at han vil leve ydmykt for en.

People never notice anything.

I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.

"...I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I'm crazy. I swear to God I am."

The trouble with girls is, if they like a boy, no matter how big a bastard he is, they'll say he has an inferiority complex, and if they don't like him, no matter how nice a guy he is, or how big an inferiority complex he has, they'll say he's conceited. Even smart girls do it.

Among other things, you'll find that you are not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimlulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

En trenger ikke å tenke så altfor hardt når en snakker med lærere.

Men det beste ved museet var at alt var som det bestandig hadde vært. Ingenting forandret seg..........Visse ting bør være som de er. man burde kunne sette dem i en sånn diger glassmonter og la dem være i fred.

Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.