Hey, Mr. Cunningham. How's your entailment gettin' along?

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

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.

The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -

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

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.

Things are always better in the morning.

It's not necessary to tell all you know.

Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write.

...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.

I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.

I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at San Francisco State University.

Nothing is worth anything to dead men.

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time.

Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds.

Some say that you know real love when you realise the only person in the world who can console you is the one who has hurt you.

Where are your pants, son?

Writing, for me, is the best occupation I can think of, and there is nothing in the world I would rather do.

Nothing is sadder than the consequences of having worldly standards without worldly means.