Novelist

People never notice anything.

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

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.

How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.

He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.