We saw the same sunset.

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.

Nothing sparkly can stay.

Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.

He sure put things into words good.

I guess he had listened to more beefs and more problems from more people than any of us. A guy that'll really listen to you, listen and care about what you're saying, is something rare.

I´d rather have anybody´s hate than their pity

Greaser ' didn't have anything to do with it. My buddy over there wouldn't have done it. Maybe you would have done the same thing, maybe a friend of yours wouldn't have. It's the individual.

Stay gold Ponyboy. Stay gold.--Johnny quoting Robert Frost

Maybe people are younger when they sleep.

You can't beat yourself up anymore, ' he says. 'And you can't compare your thing to my thing or to anyone else's thing on the how-bad-should-I-feel? scale.

There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.

They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

I was not born to be forced.

There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn't be here to see this.

I thought a lot of girls wanna have their secret identity and have something they don't want to tell people about.

I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Once learned, the ability to disagree with a smile pays valuable dividends for a lifetime.