Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near hereโthe first house down the road, maybeโthere's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.
J. D. SalingerYou never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
J. D. SalingerOh, I donโt know. That digression business got on my nerves. I donโt know. The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. Itโs more interesting and all.
J. D. Salinger