Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey. - J. D. Salinger

I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if possible, especially me.

I was not only twenty-three, but a conspicuously retarded twenty-three.

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I live to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure. ... I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself. ... I pay for this kind of attitude. I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.