You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you.

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

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.

Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. "Tuff enough," he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing, I figured Southern gentlemen had nothing on Johnny Cade.

They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes from the West Side. They shouldn't hate each other.

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

I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers