I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.

I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers

I think that The Outsiders was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

We couldn't get along without him. We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason.

We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought Socs and we fought other grease gangs. It was a normal childhood.

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.

Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.