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

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies

The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself.

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother

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.

The justice I have received, I shall give back.