Errori di gioventù.

«I used to think she was quite intelligent, in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about theater and plays and literature and all that stuff. If somebody knows quite a lot about those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they're really stupid or not. [...] My big trouble is, I always sort of think whoever I'm necking is a pretty intelligent person».

(Jerome David Salinger, The Catcher in The Rye, 1951)

Good bye, Catcher

«Voglio dire che ho lasciato scuole e posti senza nemmeno sapere che li stavo lasciando. È una cosa che odio. Che l'addio sia triste o brutto non me ne importa niente, ma quando lascio un posto mi piace saperlo, che lo sto lasciando. Se no, ti senti ancora peggio.»

«I thought it was 'If a body catch a body,'" I said. "Anyway, 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'd 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. I know it's crazy.»

(Jerome David Salinger, Il giovane Holden - The Catcher in the Rye, 1951)