Let the dead bury the dead.

Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.

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

I've been writing as long as I've been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until I began working on '[To Kill a] Mockingbird'. I think that what went before may have been a rather subconscious form of learning how to write, of training myself.

That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.

Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. “How do you know a match don't hurt him?” “Turtles can't feel, stupid,” said Jem. “Where you ever a turtle, huh?

Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.