Quotes About Holden Caulfield

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

- Holden Caulfield
The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

#2. I'd never seen that look on another face before, had never identified it in another person. I'd only met with it in fiction. But everyone falls in love with Holden Caulfield when they're sixteen. They read Catcher in the Rye and don't feel so alone.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#3. There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.

J.D. Salinger

#4. I was basically the Holden Caulfield of adult dating.

Camille Perri

#5. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. - Holden Caulfield

J.D. Salinger

#6. It's the hipsters," David said. "It's retro. They need a place to convene and argue whether Holden Caulfield was deep or just a spoiled brat.

T.J. Klune

#7. I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains. -Holden Caulfield

J.D. Salinger

#8. Holden Caulfield is the best character in literature, period.

Josh Hutcherson

#9. I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who, in appropriating to himself my inner mass of pain and confusion, had given me the unlikely name of Holden Caulfield.

Stephen Metcalf

#10. I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say 'Holden Caulfield' on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say 'Fuck you.' I'm positive, in fact.

J.D. Salinger

#11. I'm sure the large part of me is Holden Caulfield, who is the main person in the book. The small part of me must be the Devil.

Mark David Chapman

#12. Dont's ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everyone- Holden Caulfield

J.D. Salinger

#13. I am Holden Caulfield, only less reckless, and more attractive.

Ben Brooks

#14. I glance at the red-stenciled words crossing my chest - HOLDEN CAULFIELD IS MY HOMEBOY.

Lia Riley

#15. He knew he was sounding a little Holden Caulfield-esque calling everyone a phony, but he really did think everyone was a phony.

Sarah Mlynowski

#16. Holden Caulfield people are the bane of my existence.

Autumn Doughton

#17. is he crazy?" --Harcourt-Brace editor on Holden Caulfield

J.D. Salinger

#18. Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

J.D. Salinger

#19. I don't give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am - I really do - but people never notice it. People never notice anything.

J.D. Salinger

#20. Everybody wants to be great at something.

D. L. Hughley

#21. I don't even like old cars. I mean, they don't even interest me at all. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human

J.D. Salinger

#22. I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.

J.D. Salinger

#23. the heart of the novel. Holden in New York where he has something close to a nervous breakdown. Caulfield narrates the story to us

Jonathan Coupland

#24. I'm just starting to take some more voice lessons but hell no, I'll always stick into the hip-hop genre.

SonReal

#25. What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory.

J.D. Salinger

#26. the sentence im reading is terrific ...

J.D. Salinger

#27. That's something that annoys the hell out of me- I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't

J.D. Salinger

#28. I was surrounded by phonies ... They were coming in the goddam window.

J.D. Salinger

#29. I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.

J.D. Salinger

#30. The first ads for medical marijuana have started airing on television in California. The ads are quite expensive. It costs a lot of money to buy 30 seconds during 'Spongebob Squarepants.'

Craig Ferguson

#31. I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.

Elliott Smith

#32. He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army was practically as full of bastards as the Nazis were.

J.D. Salinger

#33. When I was in India I met and conversed briefly with Shri Atmananda Guru of Trivandrum, and the question he gave me to ponder was this: 'Where are you between two thoughts?

Joseph Campbell

#34. And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.

J.D. Salinger

#35. It has never ever been a bad thing in Hollywood to be sleeping with a director who's just won an Oscar or the hot new movie star whose face is on the cover of 'Time' magazine.

Kelly Rutherford

#36. The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason that beliefs are transmitted so easily from parent to child.

Esther Hicks