Goodbye, Mr. Salinger

What I like best is a book that’s at least funny once in a while. I read a lot of classical books, like The Return of the Native and all, and I like them, and I read a lot of war books and mysteries and all, but they don’t knock me out too much. What really knocks me out it 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.

SALINGER, Jerome. The catcher in the rye. New York: Back Bay / Little, Brown and Co., 2001. p. 25.

Goodbye. Aquí nos quedamos sus amigos, Mr. Salinger. Aunque nunca nos conocimos ni llegamos saber mucho de usted, nunca dejamos de considerarlo un amigo.

J. D. Salinger
(New York, 1919 – New Hampshire, 2010)