Novelist

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.

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

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

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

People never believe you.

I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.

All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

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

I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

People never notice anything.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.