“I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they’re not much to look at, or even if they’re sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.” -Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye”

Although some part of me hates posting a quote of such stereotypical teenage angst, the sentiment still stands for me. Perhaps I’m still 18, and perhaps the book is popular because it is good.

Still need a palate cleanser? Woody Allen to Diane Keaton in “Manhattan”: I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you.