J. D. Salinger

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time ...

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, hol ...

...but don't tell me I'm not sensitive to beauty. That's my Achilles' heel, and don't you forget it. ...

How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.

Don't hate me because I can't remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like every ...

It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry ...

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhapp ...

Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enoug ...

What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I proba ...

I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or late ...

It's history. It's poetry.

People never notice anything.