The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.

I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.

We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.

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

summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat;it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.

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