Get smart and nothing can touch you.
I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought Socs and we fought other grease gangs. It was a normal childhood.