It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike--in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do.

A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man. Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of people you know--doesn't say much for them, does it?

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

One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back.

Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there, nothing can put it there.