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.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

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 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.