Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.

Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.

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

One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.

This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table.