Women kill me. They really do. I don't mean I'm oversexed or anything like thatโalthough I am quite sexy. I just like them, I mean. They're always leaving their goddam bags out in the middle of the aisle.
J. D. SalingerThen again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.'
J. D. SalingerShe wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
J. D. SalingerAn artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
J. D. SalingerAnyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. 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.
J. D. Salinger