“You never get to sit next to the window any more when you're married.” — J.D. Salinger Marriage Copy Share Image
“I've read this same sentence about twenty times since you came in.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“How would you know you weren't being a phony? The trouble is you wouldn't.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas.” — J.D. Salinger Childhood Copy Share Image
“I don't care if it's a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“My God, think of the opportunities and thrusts that lie ahead when one knows without a shred of doubt how commonplace and… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains.” — J.D. Salinger Brains Copy Share Image
“One cannot even light a casual cigarette unless the artistic permission of the universe is freely given!” — J.D. Salinger Artist Copy Share Image
“People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily,...,and he had very red hair.” — J.D. Salinger Catcher in the rye Copy Share Image
“I dig my fox-holes down to a cowardly depth. Am scared stiff constantly and can't remember ever having been a civilian.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I am not exactly wallowing in guilt at the moment, but guilt is guilt.It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified.” — J.D. Salinger Guilt Copy Share Image
“I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Undoubtedly, though, what I'm really getting at is this: Since the bridegroom's permanent retirement from the scene, I haven't been able to… — J.D. Salinger Horses Copy Share Image
“There is a real-enough danger, I suppose, that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions,… — J.D. Salinger Danger Copy Share Image
“When she was done whispering in the mike and being cute as hell, they'd sing a song half in English and half… — J.D. Salinger Humor Copy Share Image
“I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I thought the two ugly ones, Marty and Laverne, were sisters, but they got very insulted when I asked them. You could… — J.D. Salinger Funny Copy Share Image
“Meet anybody for a drink. Oh, he had to go out last night and meet this television writer for a drink downtown,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Charlotte once ran away from me, outside the studio, and I grabbed her dress to stop her, to keep her near me.… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I know this much, is all," Franny said. "If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you're supposed to leave… — J.D. Salinger Poet Copy Share Image
“I don't like any shows very much, if you want to know the truth. They're not as bad as movies, but they're… — J.D. Salinger Actor Copy Share Image
“If God had wanted somebody with St. Francis's consistently winning personality for the job in the New Testament, he'd've picked him, you… — J.D. Salinger Bible Copy Share Image
“The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls… — J.D. Salinger Books Copy Share Image
“I would like you to clear up for me just what the hell your motives are for saying it.' He hesitated, but… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“You’ve got a goddamn bug today—you know that? What the hell’s the matter with you anyway?" Franny quickly tipped her cigarette ash,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Mattie,” he said silently to no one in the room, “you’re a little girl. But nobody stays a little girl or a… — J.D. Salinger Expensive clothes Copy Share Image
“Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls with lousy legs, girls that looked… — J.D. Salinger Girls Copy Share Image
“Everybody in this family gets his goddamn religion in a different package.” — J.D. Salinger Family Copy Share Image
“If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?” — J.D. Salinger Girl Copy Share Image
“If you've had a freakish education, at least use it, use it.” — J.D. Salinger Education Copy Share Image
“The rest of us, he said, we are outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Nothing in the voice of the cicada intimates how soon it will die.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“All we do our entire lives is go to one piece of holy ground to another” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Nobody knows how to do it except the Egyptians. Even modern science.” — J.D. Salinger Egyptians Copy Share Image
