J.D. Salinger Quotes

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

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.

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 there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that.

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 care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance. They annoy the hell out of me, if you want to know the truth. They were all right after Jesus was dead and all, but while He was alive, they were about as much use to Him as a hole in the head. All they did was keep letting Him down.

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

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

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.