J.D. Salinger

"The worst part is not knowing what to do."

"You really can't judge people by their appearance."

"I think the hardest thing is to be yourself."

"What I really need is to be alone for a while."

"You can't always get what you want."

"That kills me, it really does."

"I don't know anything anymore."

"The real thing is to just keep going."

"Sometimes you meet people and they change your whole perspective."

"What I'm saying is that life is complicated."

"You have to learn to let things go."

"That's the beauty of it, really."

"I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot."

"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."

"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior."

"I really do. That's the thing about me. I'm quite religious in my own way."

"The trouble with most people is they don't give themselves time to think."

"I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a coffee."

"If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off."

"The world's full of phonies, and I'm sick of it."

"I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life."

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

"I've always been a big admirer of the civilized world."

"I'm standing in the shadows at the end of the lane."

"The more expensive the school is, the more crooks it has, I swear it."

"I sort of miss everybody I've ever known."

"You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any."

"I don't even like talking about it. It depresses me."

"What I mean is, if I ever die, and they find out I'm a phony, I hope somebody has the decency to just quietly kill me or something."

"It really does. It kills me."