365 Quotes by J. D. Salinger

I mean they don't seem able to love us just the way we are. They don't seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.

You don't always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl.

Women kill me. They really do. I don't mean I'm oversexed or anything like that—although I am quite sexy. I just like them, I mean. They're always leaving their goddam bags out in the middle of the aisle.

The Great Gatsby' [...] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [....]

Where do the ducks go in the winter?

She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.

Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip!

I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.

I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go? I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away.