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.

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….

...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

Who gathers the withered rose?

He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.

When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not be old enough to desire the fruits of it...his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it...

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