The Catcher in the Rye

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

The 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.

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours.

Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

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.