I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.

An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.

What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.

It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.