J D Salinger quotes

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

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

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?

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.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

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.

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.

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.