J. D. Salinger

... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please.

— J. D. Salinger

But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't…

— J. D. Salinger

“Nobody'd be different. The only thing that would be different would be you. Not that you'd be so much older or anything.…

— J. D. Salinger

Sex is something I really don't understand too hot.

— J. D. Salinger

“Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books.”

— J. D. Salinger

But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the…

— J. D. Salinger

Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.'

— J. D. Salinger

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

— J. D. Salinger

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to…

— J. D. Salinger

“You keep records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them. If you want to Just as someday, if you have something to…

— J. D. Salinger

I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher…

— J. D. Salinger

Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.

— J. D. Salinger

“Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these…

— J. D. Salinger

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

— J. D. Salinger

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

— J. D. Salinger

The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and…

— J. D. Salinger

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

— J. D. Salinger

“Dunyada hos seyler de var -hakikaten hos seyler yani. Hepsini birden iskalayacak kadar da salagiz biz. Olup biten her seyi hemen o…

— J. D. Salinger

I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

— J. D. Salinger

“But it was worth it. The blonde was some dancer. She was one of the best dancers I ever danced with. I'm…

— J. D. Salinger

He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God…

— J. D. Salinger

Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these…

— J. D. Salinger

Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.

— J. D. Salinger

“I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do. Some of the good ones do, in a very…

— J. D. Salinger

Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.

— J. D. Salinger