The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm... - 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."

"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."

"It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true."

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

"Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it."