J. D. Salinger Quotes

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

~ J. D. Salinger

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

~ J. D. Salinger

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

~ J. D. Salinger

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

~ J. D. Salinger

What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

~ J. D. Salinger

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

~ J. D. Salinger

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

~ J. D. Salinger