“You have to stop trying to make other people 'measure up.' This is a standard only you can apply to yourself. It's the only one you have the right to enforce.”
More from J.D. Salinger
“An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms,…”
“At the end of the day you're in your own stew.”
“Detachment, buddy, only detachment.”
“Nothing one man can say can help another. Each must make his own way.”