“It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you're going to do till you do… — 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
“...my life itself couldn't very conceivably be less Zenful than it is, and what little I've been able to apprehend - I… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words, “Dear God, life is hell.” Nothing led up… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I said no, there would't be marvelous places to go to after I went to college and all. Open your ears. It'd… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, life is hell." Nothing led up… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“It is possible that I was mistaken and I do not willfully invite any disillusions at this point in my life. I… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Just get sick sometime and go visit yourself, and you'll find out how tactless you are! You're the most impossible person to… — 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
“He didn't disagree with me, but he seemed to feel that I have a perfection complex of some kind. Much talk from… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Look at 'em,' he said. 'Goddam fools.' 'Who?' said Ginnie. 'I don't know. Anybody.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I'm no goddam animal. I may be a stupid, fouled-up twentieth-century son of a bitch, but I'm no animal. Don't gimme that.… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go there… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“It means that every man, woman, and child over the age, let us say, of twentyone or thirty, at the very outside,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Jesus, life has its share of honorable thrills if one but keeps one’s eyes open!” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“You know what she said? She says nobody gets a nervous breakdown just from the war and all. She says you probably… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“You ought to go to a boy's school sometime. Try it sometime," I said. "It's full of phonies, and all you do… — 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
