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

Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.

You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.

Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.

I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.

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

I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.