I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

Something is wrong with me, it's something about me. it has to be me because all those people cannot have changed.

He was letting you break your icons one by one. he was letting you reduce him to the status of a human being.

I mean this: every time I come home, I feel like I'm coming back to the world, and when I leave Macomb it's like leaving the world.

As Kipling said, that’s another story...

It was a place where, if troubles did not vanish, they were made bearable.

When Henry handed her a cup of punch she whispered, "If you want to go on with the seniors or anything I'll be alright."Henry smiled at her. "You're my date, Scout.

(...) when a man's looking down the double barrel of a shotgun, he picks up the first weapon he can find to defend himself, be it a stone or a stick of stove wood or a citizens' council.

Life should be lived more from the heart than the head.

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.

Imagination is the greatest nation in the world!

If people did not fear me so, how could anyone tolerate me?

Of a good beginning cometh a good end.

I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory.

The aloha spirit is real simple. You give and you give and you give . . . and you give from here (the heart), until you have nothing else to give.

Christianity is a myth that has been literalised.

Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.

Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.