Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.

I do my best to love everybody

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

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.

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

Mutual defiance made them alike.