Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.

I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.

Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

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.

I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.

I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea.