Holden Caulfield

Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.

I was too depressed to care whether I had a good view or not.

I used to think she was quite intelligent, in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about the theater and plays and literature and all that stuff. If somebody knows quite a lot about those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they're really stupid or not.

People always think something’s all true. I don’t give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am — I really do — but people never notice it. People never notice anything.

It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.

I don't know if you've ever done it, but it's sort of hard to sit around waiting for somebody to say something when they're thinking and all.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you're not.

People are always ruining things for you.

If you're supposed to sock somebody in the jaw, and you sort of feel like doing it, you should do it.

“I'm not in the mood right now,” I said. I wasn't, either. You have to be in the mood for those things.

He was one of those bald guys that comb all their hair over from the side to cover up the baldness. I'd rather be bald than do that.

Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something.
Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap.
Who wants flowers when you're dead?
Nobody.

It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.

If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the"Fuck you" signs in the world. It is impossible.