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 Funny
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. -J. D. Salinger Peace
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. -J. D. Salinger Happiness
I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect. -J. D. Salinger Respect
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 Movies
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 Art
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 Funny
