My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

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

You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.

I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.

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

Writer's were supposed to be a litte crazy

Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.