I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past and family members had to depend on each other.

Yeah I spent my teen years in West Virginia and when I was a kid in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.

Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology.

It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.

In all her history from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

In West Virginia the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

When I'm at home in Virginia I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia and we didn't have any money we just survived on happiness on being a happy family.