There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.

Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.

Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.

I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn't dream of interrupting on the golf course.

Next morning I awoke, looked out the window and nearly died of fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven. "The world's endin', Atticus! Please do something -!" I dragged him to the window and pointed. "No it's not," he said. "It's snowing.

See there?" Jem was scowling triumphantly. "Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin