I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. Yes sir, a clown,' he said. 'There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.' You got it backwards, Dill,' said Jem. 'Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them.' Well I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.

Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.

She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.

That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.