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

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

...people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win...even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before- at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn't prove a thing.

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

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

I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.

Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.