It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks!

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky

Get smart and nothing can touch you.

Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.

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

I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.

But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?