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

"I think that one of these days,"he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you."
"Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it."
"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."
"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
"The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding."