"

is he crazy?" --Harcourt-Brace editor on Holden Caulfield

"

Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls with lousy legs, girls that looked like swell girls,...more

"

Anyway, 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 - nob...more

"

And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself t...more

"

Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.

"

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'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'...more