They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.

You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.

Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

Turtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem. "Were you ever a turtle, huh?

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.