Quotes by J. D. Salinger

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  • Take most people, they're crazy about cars. I'd rather have a goddamn horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
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  • I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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  • I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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  • It's really too bad a lot of crumby stuff is so much fun sometimes.
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  • I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.
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  • If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
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