My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.

We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.

When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.

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

Dill if you don't hush I'll knock you bowlegged.

Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant.

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.