“And I hate to tell you... but I think that once you have a fair idea where you want to go, your… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Once you get past all the Mr. Vinsons, you're going to start getting closer and closer--that is, if you want to, and… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“This is too grand to be said (so I’m just the man to say it), but I can’t be my brother’s brother… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I'm just going through a phase right now. Everybody goes through phases and all, don't they?” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Did you ever get fed up?" I said. "I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that this composition has never been in more imminent danger than right now of taking on precisely the… — 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
