J.D. Salinger

"I used to play violin in an orchestra, until I lost the feeling."

"What makes you so sure you're going to get out at all?"

"The tree isn't really dying, it's just resting."

"She was terrific company all the way."

"Even if you do think somebody's a moron, you still have to have some little consideration for them."

"I don't care if it's a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it."

"It's terrible to find out you're not appreciated."

"The only thing that really matters is the music itself."

"I'm a very sexy bastard, I really am."

"What I don't like is certain phonies."

"I'm going to try not to tell too much about it, because you always end up losing the whole thing."

"I think that's the whole trouble with the world."

"You can't blame anybody in those days for not getting depressed."

"I'd just as soon not talk about it."

"It really does. It really kills me sometimes."

"Most people are terrific snobs when it comes down to it."

"The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was."

"I felt like I was disappearing."

"Being missing her so much it was like having a toothache."

"I don't like any shows very much, if you want to know the truth."

"The trouble is always just the same, really."

"I really am quite the sexual maniac."

"They really were beautiful, those nuns."

"The whole thing depressed me very much."

"It's very funny, actually."

"I'm not very intelligent or anything."

"I really shouldn't tell you all this."

"It's really very funny when you think about it."

"Sometimes that's all there is to it."

"The trouble is you have to sound like a moron sometimes."