365 Quotes by J. D. Salinger

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years.

If a body catch a body coming through the rye.

Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.'

How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.

I'm up to my ears in unwritten words.

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

I feel overwhelmingly grateful to them, but I don't know what to do with their invisible gifts.

Get your dirty stinking moron knees off my chest.