Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

What is moral is what you feel good after.

We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.

I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.