Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.'
J. D. SalingerI ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.
J. D. SalingerThe cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we all sooner or later die.
J. D. SalingerYou think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
J. D. SalingerIt's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.
J. D. Salinger