The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

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.

Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.

Love doesn't die; the men and women do.

The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.

Wonder. Go on and wonder.