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

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

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

Mace, you never read Smoky the Cowhorse,did you? No. Well,ol' Smoky, he had somebad things happen to him,had the heart knocked clean out of him.But he hung on and came out of it okay.I've been bashed up pretty good,Mason, but I'm going to make it.

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

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.

Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.