More quotes by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em."
"It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you."
"Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in."
"They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."