any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man
William FaulknerWar is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.
William FaulknerA writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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 Faulkner