Can anyone survive without faith, however its labeled? No matter how you live, it seems, you need faith to get by, to get ahead.

If my mind cannot be tied down, if my dreams cannot be diminished, then no amount of restraints can really guarantee my quiet submission.

I'd rather believe in reincarnation than hell. The idea of an afterlife is much so more tolerable when returning is an option.

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.

I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.

Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis.

Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones

Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth.

God first, family second, career third.

Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.

Christianity isn't dead. It still has the capacity to scare people. It still gives people the creeps, which means there is still some power behind the religion, as sort of watered down as it can be.