Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. SALINGERI don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J. D. SALINGERI am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. SALINGERAll morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J. D. SALINGERSleep tight, ya morons!
J. D. SALINGERThat’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
J. D. SALINGERShe was not one for emptying her face of expression.
J. D. SALINGERYou’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
J. D. SALINGERYou never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
J. D. SALINGERI’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. SALINGERSometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
J. D. SALINGERGrand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
J. D. SALINGERThe 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. SALINGERKnow your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
J. D. SALINGERWho in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
J. D. SALINGERPeople never notice anything.
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