Quotes by J.D. Salinger

"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."

"I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't."

"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."