J. D. Salinger quotes and words of wisdom

"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."
Found in the topic Love.

"Boy, when you are dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a god dam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you are dead? Nobody."
Found in the topic Death.

"Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children."
Found in the topic Children.

"I used to think she was quite intelligent, in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about the theater and plays and literature and all that stuff. If somebody knows quite a lot about those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they"re really stupid or not. It tooks me years to find out...."
Found in the topic Intelligent.

"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."
Found in the topic Paranoid.

"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."
Found in the topic Born.

"Take most people, they are crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, they are always talking about have many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that is even newer. I do not even like old cars.... I"d rather have a horse. A horse is at least human, for God"s sake."
Found in the topic Automobiles.

Interesting Quotes

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God--but to create him.Arthur C. Clarke - English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - )

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.Reinhold Niebuhr - US Protestant theologian (1892 - 1971)