Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches

The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.

When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.

Everything human is alien to me.

I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.