J. D. Salinger quotes
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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.
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Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.
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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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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.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
