RIP JD Salinger

Called perhaps the greatest writer of the post World War II generation, he died after living as a recluse for fifty years. As writers, no matter the stripe, if you were a fan or never touched a word of his, it's a moment to acknowledge.

"We're freaks, that's all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, that's all. We're the tattooed lady, and we're never going to have a minute's peace, the rest of our lives, until everybody else is tattooed, too." -- Franny and Zooey

"She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had reached puberty." -- Nine Stories, 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish'

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." -- Catcher in the Rye