who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody. - J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

"I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice."

"I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot."

"The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding."

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

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."