Your mother is not crazy. Neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother. He is merely miscast in a play. He would have made the perfect knight in a different century, or a very good pagan prince in a time of heroes. He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river, with the ability to do anything and finding nothing he wants to do.

All my life I wanted somebody who knew more than I did to tell me the truth.

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

I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year

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

If you enjoy reading something, read it.

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