Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.

When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.

Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant.

I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

I've been writing as long as I've been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until I began working on '[To Kill a] Mockingbird'. I think that what went before may have been a rather subconscious form of learning how to write, of training myself.