More Quotes by J. D. Salinger
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.
Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew--knew--that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
