365 Quotes by J. D. Salinger

I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.

Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it.

You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete - that's what scares me.

It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.

Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.

Are all your stars shining?

Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.

We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.