J.D. Salinger

He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement.

I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas.

I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they’re always being perverty when I’m around.

He laughed and the others laughed with him, except Babe, who resented slightly that what he felt so deeply could be reduced to a humor.