More quotes by J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

"I'm not trying to tell you,"he said "that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so.But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and creative to begin with--which, unfortunately, is rarely the case--tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are MEREly brilliant and creative."
"The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding."
"when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you"right under your nose."
"That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can."
"who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody."