I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around. I was damn near bawling, I felt so damn happy, if you want to know the truth.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of trying to make me happy

You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there.

How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.