"What really knocks me out is a book that,
when you're all done reading it , you wish
the author that wrote it was a terrific friend
of yours and you could call him up on the phone
whenever you felt like it.
That doesn't happen much though."
"I keep picturing all these little kids playing
some game in this big field of rye and all.
Thousands of little kids,and nobody's around -
nobody big, I mean-except me. And I'm standing
on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do,
I have to catch everybody if they start to go over
the cliff- I mean if they're running and they don't
look where they're going I have to come out from
somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day.
I'de just be the catcher in the rye and all.I know
it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really
like to be."
J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)