I'll read my books and I'll drink coffee and I'll listen to music and I'll bolt the door. - J. D. Salinger

People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you're not.

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?

"But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that has them." Teddy brushed back his hair from his forehead with one hand. "I grew my own body," he said. "Nobody else did it for me. So if I grew it, I must have known how to grow it. Unconsciously, at least. I may have lost the conscious knowledge of how to grow it sometime in the last few hundred thousand years, but the knowledge is still there, because — obviously — I've used it."