Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward.

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

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

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

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

When stalking one’s prey, it is best to take one’s time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge.

I had never thought about it, but summer was Dill by the fishpool smoking string, Dill's eyes alive with complicated plans to make Boo Radley emerge; summer was the swiftness with which Dill would reach up and kiss me when Jem was not looking, the longings we sometimes felt each other feel. With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable..." - Scout Finch