If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky

I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.

It was too vast a problem to be just a personal thing. There should be some help, someone should tell them before it was too late. Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then, and wouldn’t be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore.

You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you.

I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.

I'm a good judge of my own work.

I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.