I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier to take it up again. If you exhaust yourself, then you’ll get into a dead spell and you’ll have trouble with it.

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

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.

Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.