More Quotes by J. D. Salinger
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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.
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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?
