There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.

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

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

Turtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem. "Were you ever a turtle, huh?

You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.

I do my best to love everybody

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.