The only one who lived with the chaplain in his clearing in the woods was Corporal Whitcomb, his assistant. Corporal Whitcomb, an atheist, was a disgruntled subordinate who felt he could do the chaplain’s job much better than the chaplain was doing it and viewed himself, therefore, as an underprivileged victim of social inequity.
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they have here, keeps asking me if I'm going apply myself when I go back to school next September. It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.
You reckon he’s crazy? Miss Maudie shook her head. If he’s not he should be by now. The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets— Atticus don’t ever do anything to Jem and me in the house that he don’t do in the yard, I said, feeling it my duty to defend my parent. Gracious child, I was raveling a thread, wasn’t even thinking about your father, but now that I am I’ll say this: Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets. How’d you like some fresh poundcake to take home? I liked it very much. Next
Azt kérdezik, igyekszem-e beilleszkedni az ottani rendbe, ha jövő szeptemberben visszamegyek az iskolába. Ez olyan hülye kérdés, szerintem. Mert honnan tudná az ember, mit fog csinálni, amíg meg nem csinálta? A válasz: sehonnan. Én azt hiszem, igyekszem majd, de honnan tudjam? Esküszöm, hülye kérdés.