Quotes by J.D. Salinger

“If you're not inthe mood, you can't do that stuff right.”

“She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”

“And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.”

“I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”

“I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.”

“I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the ope...”

“But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me. ”

“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished...”

“It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so I don't know not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and sad-making. And the worst part is, ...”

“I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you.”

“Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reasonOh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. Youre a deserving craftsman. It would never betray you. Good night. Im feeling ...”

“when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose.”

“If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible.”

“I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they're only scratching their arms or blowing their noses or even just giggling or something.”

“I don't like it when it stings,' he said. 'Nobody does.”

“In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw.”

“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing o...”

“You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.”

“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.”

“Im just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody elses. Im sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. Its disgusting.”