The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly. J . D. Salinger
He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world. J . D. Salinger
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart. J . D. Salinger
They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good. J . D. Salinger
It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it. J . D. Salinger
I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. J . D. Salinger
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. J . D. Salinger
I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. J . D. Salinger
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence. Frank Zappa