J.D. Salinger Quotes

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.

Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.

But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am.

Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. - Holden Caulfield

I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they’re not much to look at, or even if they’re sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.

I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.

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

People always think something's all true. I don't give a damn, except that I get bored when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am, I really do. But people never notice. People never notice anything.