He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.

I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.

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

I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn't dream of interrupting on the golf course.

Nothing is more deadly than a deserted, waiting street.

Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.

Wordsworth was right when he said that we trail clouds of glory as we come into the world, that we are born with a divine sense of perception. As we grow older, the world closes in on us, and we gradually lose the freshness of viewpoint that we had as children. That is why I think children should get to know this country while they are young.