For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception orother, of heat orcold, light or shade, pain or pleasure.I nevercan catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.

-Hume, David
  A  Treatise of Human Nature, bk.1, pt.4, section 6.

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 aroundönobody big, I meanö 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 clifföI 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.

-Salinger,J(erome) D(avid)
The Catcher in the Rye, ch.22.

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.

-Williams,TennesseeThomas Lanier
  Mrs Goforth.The MilkTrain Doesn't Stop HereAnymore, sc.3