Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write.

Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.

Things are always better in the morning.

As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to learn, except possibly algebra.

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.

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.