She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together..

His icebergs are strange monuments with a symbol embodied in their form and their colours. They do not freeze you when you look at them, for they are….

I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she reall….

Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes..

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

I held hands with her all the time...that doesn't sound like much, I realize, but she was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands w….

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot..

I kept picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye... If they're running and they don't look where they're going, I have to come out fro….

One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce th….

Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first one who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior..

You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia a….

Franny has the measles, for one thing. Incidentally, did you hear her last week? She went on at beautiful length about how she used to fly all around….

There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they do….

Happiness is a solid and joy is a liquid..

I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead..

Hell is the suffering of being unable to love..

It was the last game of the year and you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn't win..

Sex is something I really don't understand too hot..

It's so silly. All you do is get the heck out of your body when you die. My gosh, everybody's done it thousands of times. Just because they don't rem….

I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((())))..

We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, that’s all. We’re the tattooed la….