“Almost every damn school in the world gets out earlier for Christmas break than the school I go to.”

“I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they’re always being perverty when I’m around.”

“In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.”

“I think that once you have a fair idea where you want to go, your first move will be to apply yourself in school.”

“God damn it," he said, "there are nice things in the world- and I mean nice things. We're all such morons to get so sidetracked. Always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.”

“The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.”

“I knew her like a book. I really did. I mean, besides checkers, she was quite fond of all athletic sports, and after I got to know her, the whole summer long we played tennis together almost every morning and golf almost every afternoon. I really got to know her quite intimately. I don't mean it was anything physical or anything―it wasn't―but we saw each other all the time. You don't always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl.”