“This is a Southern gift, isn't it - tremendous self-regard diluted with humor and modesty. That's what they mean by Southern charm, right?”
“Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.”
“Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic....”
“Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.”
“Southern girls are God's gift to the entire male population. There is absolutely no woman finer than one raised below the mason-dixon line and once you go southern may the good Lord help you - you never go back”
“The Southern heart is too impulsive; Southern hospitality is too lavish with the stranger.- "The Spirit of Tennessee Journalism”