I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.

You don't understand. You've never hated anybody. No, I never have. We're allotted just so much time on earth, and I wouldn't want the Lord to see me wasting mine in any such manner.

would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.

I'm one of the world's greatest pencil sharpeners.

That's not writing, that's typing

I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.

A boy has to peddle his book.