To be a serious writer requires discipline that is iron fisted. It's sitting down and doing it whether you think you have it in you or not. Everyday. Alone. Without interruption. Contrary to what most people think, there is no glamour to writing. In fact, it's heartbreak most of the time.

Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is the court.

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

I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.

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

There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.