“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“[Y]ou’re someone who took up birds in the first place because they fired your imagination; they fascinated you because ‘they seemed of… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Holden... One short, faintly stuffy, pedagogical question. Don't you think there's a time and place for everything? Don't you think if someone… — 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 Copy Share Image
“In the first place, I'm sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don't care too much for most… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“You can say the Jesus Prayer from now till doomsday, but if you don't realize that the only thing that counts in… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“When the weather's nice, my parents go out quite frequently and stick a bunch of flowers on old Allie's grave. I went… — J.D. Salinger 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 Copy Share Image
“It started embarrassing me. I began to feel like such a nasty little egomaniac." She reflected. "I don't know. It seemed like… — 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
