I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.
J. D. SalingerYouโd better get busy, though, buddy. The goddam sands run out on you every time You turn around. I know what Iโm talking about. Youโre lucky if you get time to sneeze In this goddam phenomenal world.
J. D. SalingerIf you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.
J. D. Salinger