Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis.
It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.
A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman.
Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.
Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.