I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
The thing is, if you get very depressed about something, it's hard as hell to swallow.
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you're not.
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?
That's the whole trouble.
When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think.
You don’t always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl.
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 — nobody big, I mean — except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff — I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.
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