“I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
“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 lik...”
J.D. Salinger
“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
J.D. Salinger
“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.”
J.D. Salinger
“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.”
J.D. Salinger
“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”
J.D. Salinger