It’s history. It’s poetry.

- J. D. Salinger

Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly

- J. D. Salinger

All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

- J. D. Salinger

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

- J. D. Salinger

Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.

- J. D. Salinger

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…

- J. D. Salinger

The world is full of actors pretending to be human

- J. D. Salinger

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

- J. D. Salinger

I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.

- J. D. Salinger