Quotes by : J.D. Salinger

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything....

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.....

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those....

But what I mean is, lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about....

People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily,...,and he had very red hair.

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

I purely came over because I thought you looked extremely lonely. You have an extremely sensitive face.....

Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going....

He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement.

We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of....