Words matter. These are the best J. D. Salinger Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
What I like best is a book that’s at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.
Mothers are all slightly insane.
He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.
There’s no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It’s all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
I don’t necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
How do you know you’re going to do something, untill you do it?
It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
People never notice anything.
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they’re mean bastards at heart.
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone’s appropriated them. It’s an illicit act. It’s unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That’s how I feel.
I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
It was a very stupid thing to do, I’ll admit, but I hardly didn’t even know I was doing it.
I don’t even like old cars. I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.
I’m known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I’m doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
