Quotes by J.D. Salinger

“But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am.”

“When I really worry about something, I dont just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I dont go. Im too worried to go. I dont want to interrupt my worr...”

“You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there.”

“Answer Professor Mandells letter when you get a chance and the patience. Ask him not to send me any more poetry books. I already have enough for 1 year anyway. I am quite sick of it anyway. A man w...”

“Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.”

“I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the he...”

“Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn't necessarily affect the transformation. She was...”

“But while I was sitting down, I saw something that drove me crazy. Somebody'd written 'fuck you' on the wall. It drove me damn near crazy. I thought how Phoebe and all the other little kids would s...”

“All mothers are slightly insane.”

“I have a feeling that you're riding for some terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind. This fall I think you're riding forit's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man f...”

“It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.”

“He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement. ”

“Though we've talked and talked and talked, we've all agreed not to say a word.”

“We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.”

“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like it. In the first place, I'm sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don't car...”

“Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesnt necessarily affect the transformation. She was ...”

“All these handsome guys are the same. When they're done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on you.”

“Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited ...”

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.”

“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 i...”