There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they don't know what you're doing. You can keep it for yourself.

Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.

I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.

It was the last game of the year and you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn't win.

If a body catch a body coming through the rye.

If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.