I have a feeling that you’re riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall... The whole arrangement’s designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn’t supply them with... So they gave up looking.
Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. I know that’s impossible, but it’s too bad anyway.
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.
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move... Nobody’d be different. The only thing that would be different would be you.
I think that one of these days ... you’re going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you’ve got to start going there. But immediately. You can’t afford to lose a minute. Not you.
This is a people shooting hat,' I said. 'I shoot people in this hat.'
I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.
Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.
Stop, stop, stop, you're going to poke someone's eye out!
Now if you two don’t mind, I’m going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed – or worse, expelled.
Oh, it was Malfoy, I was thinking about him and I lost track of things!