J.D. Salinger

The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

People always think something's all true.

I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all.

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day.

You can never find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any.

It's what I’d call a madman’s game.

I felt like I was disappearing.