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.

I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.

Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.

The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.

Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.