“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 Copy Share Image
“You're a little girl but nobody stays a little girl or a little boy for long. It's a quick business being a… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“But you're wrong about that hating business. I mean about hating football players and all. You really are. I don't hate too… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“It was a very touch- and- go business, in 1955, to get a wholly plausible reading from Mrs. Glass’s face, and especially… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“That digression business got on my nerves. I don't now. The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It's… — J.D. Salinger 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 Copy Share Image
“But the thing is, you raved and you bitched when you came home about the stupidity of audiences. The goddam unskilled laughter… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all… I'm standing on the edge of… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“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… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything.… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was… The only thing that would be different would… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“And you make people nervous, young man," she said - most equably, for her. "You either take to somebody or you don't. If you… — 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 Copy Share Image
“He stuck around till around dinnertime, talking about all the guys at Pencey that he hated their guts, and squeezing this big pimple on… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“For example, when Seymour told one of the twins or Zooey or Franny or even Mme. Boo Boo (who was only two years younger… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“The cigars are ballast, sweetheart. Sheer ballast. If he didn’t have a cigar to hold on to, his feet would leave the ground. We’d… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“In certain Zen monasteries, it's a cardinal rule, if not the only serious enforced discipline, that when one monk calls out 'Hi!' to another… — j.d. salinger Copy Share Image
