More Quotes by J. D. Salinger
If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew--knew--that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
