I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!

You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.

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

...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.

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.

Get smart and nothing can touch you.

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