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.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October.

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

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

He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with.They gave a man self-respect. Not ostentation but quality, and the love that cherished the quality. Possessions reminded him that he existed, and made him enjoy his existence. It was as simple as that. And wasn' t that worth something? He existed.

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.