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More Quotes by J. D. Salinger
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.
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.
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.
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.
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.
