Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there, nothing can put it there.

I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

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

So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.

Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.

They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.