“They’re not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?”“Who else will go?”

“A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something.”

“If every kid who said he was going to the library, when he was really off doing something else, actually went to the library, they'd have to send out for more books.”

“I'm not going to stay sround to send reapers to kill people who are too scared, or frightened, or JUST PLAIN STUPID to find joy in life.”

“If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.”

“I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all.”