365 Quotes by J. D. Salinger

What I think is, you're supposed to leave somebody alone if he's at least being interesting and he's getting all excited about something. I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.

I've never seen such a bunch of apple-eaters.

Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.

Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion.

You can't exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes.

I know. I'm very hard to talk to. I realize that.

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.

I'm one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.

How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire