Quotes by J.D. Salinger

“Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much.”

“She was not one for emptying her face of expression. ”

“Mothers are all slightly insane.”

“He laughed and the others laughed with him, except Babe, who resented slightly that what he felt so deeply could be reduced to a humor.”

“People always think something's all true.”

“You take a very handsome guy, or a guy that thinks he's a real hot-shot, and they're always asking you to do them a big favor. Just because they're crazy about themself, they think you're crazy abo...”

“That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where ...”

“If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?”

“I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful...”

“Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls with lousy legs, girls that looked like swell girls, girls that looked like they'd be bitches if yo...”

“She was around ten minutes late, as a matter of fact. I didn't give a damn, though. All that crap they have in cartoons in the Saturday Evening Post and all, showing guys on street corners looking ...”

“I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. Thats the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if theyre not much to look at, or even if theyre sort of stupid, you fall...”

“Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. - Holden Caulfield”

“is he crazy?" --Harcourt-Brace editor on Holden Caulfield”

“And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.”

“Im not too sure what the name of the song was that he was playing when I came in, but whatever it was, he was really stinking it up. He was putting all these dumb, show-offy ripples in the high not...”

“Boy, it began to rain like a bastard. In buckets, I swear to God. All the parents and mothers and everybody went over and stood right under the roof of the carrousel, so they wouldn't get soaked to...”

“This whole goddam house stinks of ghosts. I dont mind so much being haunted by a dead ghost, but I resent like hell being haunted by a half-dead one.”

“Why's it so sunny?" she repeated.Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy," he said.”

“I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.”