J.D. Salinger Quotes

I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious atheist. I probably am. The thing Jesus really would've liked would be t...

Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes. Sometimes I can't even look at them, especially if they're with some dopey guy that's telling them all about a goddam football game.

I was a nice girl, she pleaded, wasn't I?

It didn't exactly depress me to think about it, but it didn't make me feel gay as hell either. Certain things should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in those big glass cases...

Seymour once said to me - in a crosstown bus, of all places - that all legitimate religious study must lead to unlearning the differences, the illusory differences, between boys and girls, animals and...

In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.

I was surrounded by jerks. I'm not kidding.

I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if possible, especially me.

People are always ruining things for you.

You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion....

TINA: Oh, Rick, Rick, I’m scared. What’s happened to us? I can’t seem to find us any more. I reach out and reach out and we’re just not there. I’m frightened. I’m a frightened child (Looks out the win...

You’re absolutely right. You’re absolutely right. It’s staggering how you jump straight the hell into the heart of a matter. I’m goosebumps all over… By God, you inspire me. You inflame me, Bessie. Yo...

Once you get past all the Mr. Vinsons, you're going to start getting closer and closer--that is, if you to, and if you look for it and wait for it--to the kind of information that will be very, very...

I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age . sometimes I act a lot older than I am- I rally do - but people never notice it . people never notice anything.

That's something that drives me crazy. When people say something twice that way, after you admit it the first time.

I'm not trying to tell you, he said that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so.But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and cr...

Maybe I just worried too much about things. Maybe I consistently hesitated to risk letting the thing we had together deteriorate into a romance. I don’t know any more. I used to know, but I lost the k...

Mary Jane. Listen. Please, Eloise said, sobbing. You remember our freshman year, and I had that brown-and-yellow dress I bought in Boise, and Miriam Ball told me nobody wore those kind of dresses in N...

Hey, listen, I said. You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That little lake? By any chance, do you happen to know where they go, the ducks, when it gets all frozen over? D...

It's 'If a body meet a body coming through the rye'! old Phoebe said. It's a poem. By Robert Burns.I know it's a poem by Robert Burns.She was right, though. It is If a body meet a body coming through...