Quotes on Holden Caulfield

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.

Money always ends up making you blue.

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

I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.

You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.

I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.

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.