Source: Looking for Alibrandi
“If you could walk a mile in my shoes you'd be crazy too.”
Interview in The Observer, 1990
“Do you love him?"
How would I know?"
You'd know.”
Source: Firefly Lane
Franny and Zooey (1961), Zooey (1957)
Context: You still can't love a Jesus as much as you'd like to who did and said a couple of things he was at least reported to have said or done — and you know it. You're constitutionally unable to love or understand any son of God who throws tables around. And you're constitutionally unable to love or understand any son of God who says a human being, any human being — even a Professor Tupper — is more valuable to God than any soft, helpless Easter chick.
“You'd be so nice,
You'd be paradise
To come home to and love.”
"You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To"
Something To Shout About (1943)
Nationally syndicated column number 31, A Few Shots of Scopolamin (15 July 1923), after meeting Robert E. House, who had proposed the use of scopolamine as a truth serum, in The Use of Scopolamine in Criminology (1922).
Weekly columns
Context: See they conducted experiments on convicts... I don't know on what grounds they reason a man in jail is a bigger liar than one out of jail... The chances are telling the truth is what got him there... It would be a big aid to humanity, but it will never be, for already the politicians are up in arms against it... It would wreck the very foundation on which our political government is run... If you ever injected truth into politics you'd have no politics … Even the ministers are denouncing it now … Humanity is not yet ready for either real truth or real harmony.
“I saw you standing on a veranda you'd built with your own hands. And I loved you.”
Source: Tribute
“If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love.”
