I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be.

Okay greasers,you've had it.

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

All of a sudden it felt like people were peering over my shoulder, wondering what I would write next. I was blocked for four years.

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

It was too vast a problem to be just a personal thing. There should be some help, someone should tell them before it was too late. Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then, and wouldn’t be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore.

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