“I was feeling sort of lousy. Depressed and all. I almost wish I was dead.” — J.D. Salinger Depressed Copy Share Image
“Without the mind, sensuality quite has no organs to call her own!” — J.D. Salinger Mind Copy Share Image
“Catholics are always trying to find out if you’re Catholic.” — J.D. Salinger Catholic Copy Share Image
“I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they’re always being perverty when I’m around.” — J.D. Salinger Funny Copy Share Image
“when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“In my opinion, if you really want to know, half of the nastiness in the world is stirred up by people who… — J.D. Salinger Egos Copy Share Image
“But fishing, as we know, in libraries or anywhere else, is a tricky business, with never a certainty of who's going to… — J.D. Salinger Business Copy Share Image
“If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego… — J.D. Salinger Ego Copy Share Image
“A few years before, it had taken her three days to dispose of the Easter chick she had found dead on the… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“God damn it, there are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We're all such morons to get… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I don’t even like old cars. I mean, they don’t even interest me at all. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Mary Jane. Listen. Please," Eloise said, sobbing. "You remember our freshman year, and I had that brown-and-yellow dress I bought in Boise,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“His voice was oddly and beautifully rough-cut, as some small boys’ voices are. Each of his phrasings was rather like a little… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his… — J.D. Salinger Art Copy Share Image
“Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game all right – I’ll admit… — J.D. Salinger Football Copy Share Image
“It didn't exactly depress me to think about it, but it didn't make me feel gay as hell either. Certain things should… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“She's an irritating, opinionated woman, a type Buddy can't stand. I don't think he could see her for what she is. A… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“You're just being logical...You're just giving me a regular, intelligent answer. I was trying to help you. You asked me how I… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Surely, he was all real things to us: our blue-striped unicorn, our double-lensed burning glass, our consultant genius, our portable conscience, our… — J.D. Salinger Poetry Copy Share Image
“Where I lived at Pencey, I lived in the Ossenburger Memorial Wing of the new dorms. It was only for juniors and… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I see you are looking at my feet," he said to her when car was in motion. "I beg your pardon?" said… — J.D. Salinger Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“How'd she happen to mention me? Does she do to B.M. now? She said she might go there. she said she might… — J.D. Salinger Horsing around Copy Share Image
“I think it should be done over, Buddy. …Please make peace with your wit. It's not going to go away, Buddy. To… — J.D. Salinger Peace Copy Share Image
“The bellboy that showed me to the room was this very old guy around sixty-five. He was even more depressing than the… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“For about a whole month, at least, whenever anybody said anything that sounded campusy or phony, or that smelled to high heaven… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“For a psychoanalyst to be any good with Franny at all, he'd have to be a pretty peculiar type. I don't know.… — J.D. Salinger First place Copy Share Image
“It isn't just Wally. It could be a girl, for goodness' sake. I mean if he were a girl - somebody in… — J.D. Salinger Business Copy Share Image
“We’re all animals,’ he said. ‘Basically, we’re all animals.” — J.D. Salinger Animal Copy Share Image
“Don't ever tell anybody anything, or you'll start missing everybody.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason.” — J.D. Salinger Astronomy Copy Share Image
