What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out 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. That doesn't happen much, though. - J. D. Salinger 1 Share Now -
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. - J. D. Salinger 2 Share Now -
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. - J. D. Salinger 4 Share Now -
I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect. - J. D. Salinger 5 Share Now -
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart. - J. D. Salinger 6 Share Now -
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. - J. D. Salinger 7 Share Now -
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to. - J. D. Salinger 9 Share Now -