I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.

Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.

'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.

I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.

When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.