Never, never, never on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby food. Do it, and you'll often get an answer you don't want.

You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep.

Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964

For the life of me, I did not understand how he[Atticus] could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic.

You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

See there?" Jem was scowling triumphantly. "Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin