More Quotes by J. D. Salinger
The world is full of actors pretending to be human
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
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?
Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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.
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
