“You're just being logical...You're just giving me a regular, intelligent answer. I was trying to help you. You asked me how I… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“You know that apple Adam ate in the Garden of Eden, referred to in the Bible?' he asked. 'You know what was… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Do you have any emotions?" "If I do, I don't remember when I ever used them. I don't see what they're good… — 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
“He was little more than halfway down the staircase when he heard an all-piercing, sustained scream--clearly coming from a small, female child.… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I guess, even before that, I'd get them to empty out everything their parents and everybody ever told them. I mean even… — 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
