I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

Dally was so real he scared me.

They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes from the West Side. They shouldn't hate each other.

...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.

I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.