J. D. Salinger quotes
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to. 
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. 
I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. 
Mothers are all slightly insane. 
And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up. 
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. 
If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good anymore. 
Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. 
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. 
I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood. 
If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible. 
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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.
It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.
Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.
It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
Sleep tight, ya morons!