Stay Gold, Ponyboy, Stay Gold.

Anything You Read Can Influence Your Work, So I Try To Read Good Stuff.

Things Were Rough All Over, But It Was Better That Way. That Way You Could Tell The Other Guy Was Human Too.

Even The Most Primite Societies Have An Innate Resepect For The Insane.

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.

I Go Straight From Thinking About My Narrator To Being Him.