J.D. Salinger Quotes

is he crazy?" --Harcourt-Brace editor on Holden Caulfield

Why's it so sunny?" she repeated.Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, " he said.

This whole goddam house stinks of ghosts. I don’t mind so much being haunted by a dead ghost, but I resent like hell being haunted by a half-dead one.

You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there.

Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.

Though we've talked and talked and talked, we've all agreed not to say a word.

...there was a certain comfort in surrender.

All these handsome guys are the same. When they're done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on you.

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.