let's do it for Johnny

I had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn't think of any real good reason. There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

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.

The difference is that was then, this is now.

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

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.

I'm a good judge of my own work.