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.

I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

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.

No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin's wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

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

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