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

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

There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

Dally was so real he scared me.

What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast!

Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.

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