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 mak… - J. D. Salinger

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).

"Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rule."

Yes, sir. I know it is. I know it."

Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right-I'll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game."

Zooey said... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody good-bye in the morning thinking they were your own family.