Yeah, that's all," said Dill. "He'll probably come out after you when he sees you in the yard, then Scout'n' me'll jump on him and hold him down till we can tell him we ain't gonna hurt him.

There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.

A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man. Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of people you know--doesn't say much for them, does it?

Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.

I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.

It's not necessary to tell all you know.

...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964