It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.

...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964

Next morning I awoke, looked out the window and nearly died of fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven. "The world's endin', Atticus! Please do something -!" I dragged him to the window and pointed. "No it's not," he said. "It's snowing.

Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night

There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.

It's not necessary to tell all you know.

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.