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.

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

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

Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.” “I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?” “The way you tell it, it is.

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.

I don't hafta take his sass

Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.