A glass jar containing one green marble beside a small brush and scattered scraps on a white surface. — Original artwork

Certain things 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

A teenager in a red hunting cap sits alone on a park bench, watching hazy figures on the hills at sunset. — Original artwork

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

J.D. Salinger

A smoking cigarette rests across a martini glass beside an ashtray and small leafy sprig in warm window light. — Original artwork

She looked nice, smoking. She inhaled and all, but she didn't wolf the smoke down, the way most women around her age do. She had a lot of charm. She had quite a lot of sex appeal, too, if you really want to know.

J.D. Salinger

A teenager in a red hunting cap stands on a snowy hill looking down at a brick boarding school by a lake. — Original artwork

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born.

Holden Caulfield

A boy in a red cap stands at the edge of a cliff above a golden rye field full of running children, the sea below. — Original artwork

I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. I'd just be the catcher in the rye.

Holden Caulfield

A teenager in a red hunting cap leans in a dark dormitory doorway, gesturing as he talks, snow on the campus outside. — Original artwork

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

Holden Caulfield