“I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I ...” — J. D. Salinger Quote

“I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”

“Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.”

“I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”

“Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.”

“If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.”

“I was raised with the idea of maximum effort: as long as you could look in the mirror and say, 'I gave it everything I had,' it was OK. But if you gave it less, that would disgrace you.”