It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike -- in the second place, folks don't like to have someone around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates them. Your not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.

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

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea.