Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.
William FaulknerFor every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863...
William FaulknerOnly the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while.
William FaulknerAnd when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.
William FaulknerI can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.
William Faulkner