When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.

Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.

Let the dead bury the dead.

About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?" "I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other. One hand good as the other.

I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin' after you.