J. D. Salinger

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

How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do 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.

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

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

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

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

Mothers are all slightly insane.

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