In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.

By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

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.