People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.

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.

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

People who write for reward by way of recognition or monetary gain don't know what they're doing. They're in the category of those who write; they are not writers. Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward. Writing is selfish and contradictory in its terms. First of all, you're writing for an audience of one, you must please the one person you're writing for. Yourself.