I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.(
You ought to go to a boy's school sometime. Try it sometime, I said. It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac s...
One thing? One thing I like? Okay.
I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, the...
I love you I love you I love you. Do you actually know I've only danced with you twice in eleven months?
I live alone (but catless, I'd like everybody to know)....
I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake--especially if they were about a tho...
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they have here, keeps asking me if I'm going apply myself when I go back to school next September. It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I...
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People com...
And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.
In New York, boy, money really talks - I’m not kidding.
If a body catch a body coming through the rye.
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 for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man fal...
You never even worried with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
I just never felt so fantastically rocky in my entire life.
All mothers are slightly insane.
The catcher in the rye... that's all I really want to be...
Sometimes I talk a little loud when I get excited.
People always think something's all true.