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.

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

Have you ever felt like a phone call that's been disconnected?

I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.

I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.