Quotes by J. D. Salinger

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

What I like best is a book thats at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when youre 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 doesnt happen much, though.

How do you know youre going to do something, untill you do it?

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