J.D. Salinger

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

From The Catcher in the Rye

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.

From The Catcher in the Rye

People always think something's all true.

From The Catcher in the Rye

It's what I’d call a madman’s game.

From The Catcher in the Rye

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

From The Catcher in the Rye

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

From The Catcher in the Rye

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

From The Catcher in the Rye

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.

From The Catcher in the Rye

I felt like I was disappearing.

From The Catcher in the Rye