From Holden On Conformity

"So Holden, how do you feel about conformity?" -Interviewer

"I never tried one goddamned day in school, you know. Why would I? School bored the hell out me, I spent every damn day sitting in class learning nothing. Boy, it was depressing having to sit in a room full of the phoniest of the phonies. I couldn't stand it, all those kids bumming around all the damn day pretending to be the perfect student even if they had never done a goddamned piece of school work in their life. And then if them phonies weren't pretending to be the perfect student they were being all sexy and cool, even when they stunk and they knew it. Like Stradlater, that sonovabitch, I couldn't stand it if I was as phony as them. I've always been different from them,  childish as I am and being a liar and all. Anyway, the girls are all exactly the same, except for old Jane Gallagher, they were all boring. I don't get why everyone wants to be the same, since being the same makes them so damn phony. Boy, adults are ever worse than people my own age. Like that Ivy League sonovabitch George Sally was talking before the Lunts. You know, most of the adults at that damn show were phony. When I get older I couldn't stand to hang around being like them idiots. I think that conforming makes people phony cause they aren't being their damn true selves."