693 Quotes by J.D. Salinger

She was not one for emptying her face of expression.

You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.

when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose.

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.