Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.

There is a certain type of greasy hair that you get only when you are writing with no breaks.

I find novels compose my mind. Do you read novels too? - Reverend Finch's wife

Smile...it kills time between disasters.

My plan, when I walked out on to the field on Friday morning, was to just enjoy myself because when I'm smiling and having fun I generally bowl my best.

I do not care about the greatest good for the greatest number . . . Most people are poop-heads I do not care about them at all.

A stronger middle class is not the consequence of economic growth. A stronger middle class is the cause of economic growth.

I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle.

I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry.

I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.