Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.
I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.
We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.
...only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while...
Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.
Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon.
The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn't part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation.
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.
We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always.