"You're conforming just as much as everybody else, only in a different way."

"We're freaks, that's all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, that's all. We're the tattooed lady, and we're never going to have a minute's peace, the rest of our lives, until everybody else is tattooed, too."

J.D. Salinger: Franny and Zooey.

NY Times: J. D. Salinger, Literary Recluse, Dies at 91, January 28, 2010