Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward.

Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.

Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back.

Nothin’s real scary except in books.

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.