This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.

Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

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