I'm little but I'm old.

You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

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

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. Yes sir, a clown,' he said. 'There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.' You got it backwards, Dill,' said Jem. 'Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them.' Well I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.