She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
J. D. SalingerThat's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any.
J. D. SalingerI'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete — that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theatre Department. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.
J. D. Salinger