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.

Writer's were supposed to be a litte crazy

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

nothing can wear you out like caring about people

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

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

I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.