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

But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?

My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel.

I didn't think much about that statement then. But later I would-I still do. I think about it and think about it until I think I'm going crazy.

Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.

I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

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