Quotes by J.D. Salinger

“I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and theyre always being perverty when Im around.”

“I took her dress over to the closet and hung it up. It was funny. It made me feel sort of sad when I hung it up. I thought of her going in a store and buying it, and nobody in the store knowing she...”

“... I was feeling so depressed I didn't even think. That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think”

“Ill read my books and Ill drink coffee and Ill listen to music, and Ill bolt the ”

“We're freaks, the two of us, Franny and I. I'm a twenty-five-year-old freak and she's a twenty-one-year-old freak, and both those bastards are responsible. I swear to you, I could murder them both ...”

“God bless ladies with costly, tasteful clothes and touching, dirty fingernails that champion gifted, foreign poets and decorate the library in beautiful, melancholy fashion! My God, this universe i...”

“I am a dash man and not a miler, and it is probable that I will never write a novel. So far the novels of this war have had too much of the strength, maturity and craftsmanship critics are looking ...”

“It was lousy in the park. It wasn't too cold, but the sun still wasn't out, and there didn't look like there was anything in the park except dog crap and globs of spit and cigar butts from old men,...”

“When it became clear that nothing of the kind was forthcoming, I took more direct action. I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alonea-l-o-n-e: which is the one New Y...”

“I purely came over because I thought you looked extremely lonely. You have an extremely sensitive face.”

“You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.”

“People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily,...,and he had very red hair.”

“As much as anything else, it was a stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his privacy has been invaded, doesn't quite approve when the invader just gets up and leaves, one-two-th...”

“If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.”

“The one that sang, old Janine, was always whispering into the g***** microphone before she sang. She'd say, 'And now we like to geeve you our impression of Vooly Voo Fransay. Eet ees the story of l...”

“Her sample drawings were clipped, rather subordinately, to her photograph. All of them were arresting. One of them was unforgettable. The unforgettable one was done in florid wash colors, with a ca...”

“She threw her arms around him and kissed him. It was a station-platform kissspontaneous enough to begin with, but rather inhibited in the follow-through, and with somewhat of a forehead-bumping asp...”

“I'm no goddam animal. I may be a stupid, fouled-up twentieth-century son of a bitch, but I'm no animal. Don't gimme that. I'm no animal.”

“She gave me a pain in the ass, but she was very good looking.”

“This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, and the scene changes. The people change, too. I'm still around, but from here on in, for reasons I'm not at liberty to disclose, I've disguised m...”