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
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
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