Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.
William FaulknerIt takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.
William FaulknerIt is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. "That was all I wanted," he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. "That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years.
William FaulknerMan performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
William FaulknerOur freedom must be buttressed by a homogeny equally and unchallengeably free, no matter what color they are, so that all the other inimical forces everywhere -- systems political or religious or racial or national -- will not just respect us because we practice freedom, they will fear us because we do.
William Faulkner