Quotes by : J. D. Salinger

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

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

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out....

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?

What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book....

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's....