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

let's do it for Johnny

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

I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.

They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .

Rat race is the perfect name for it,' she said. 'We're always going and going and going, and never asking where. Did you ever hear of having more than you wanted? So that you couldn't want anything else and then started looking for something else to want? It seems like we're always searching for something to satisfy is, and never finding it. Maybe if we could lose our cool we would.

... Hey, I didn't know you didn't like baloney." I went cold. "I don't like it. I never liked it." Soda just looked at me. "You used to eat it. That's why you wouldn't eat anything while you were sick. You kept saying you didn't like baloney, no matter what it was we were trying to get you to eat." "I don't like it," I repeated.