J. D. Salinger Holden Quotations

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

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.

It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.

If a body catch a body coming through the rye.

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 like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.

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