365 Quotes by J. D. Salinger

I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.

The catcher in the rye... that's all I really want to be...

But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane.

I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.

Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason.

Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right - I'll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game.

You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

Did you see more glass?

It's so silly. All you do is get the heck out of your body when you die. My gosh, everybody's done it thousands of times. Just because they don't remember, it doesn't mean they haven't done it.