Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.
William FaulknerYou can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.
William FaulknerWe could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.
William FaulknerIn a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don't know what I am. I don't know if I am or not.
William FaulknerWho is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?
William FaulknerI think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can get up feeling rotten, with a hangover, or with-with actual pain, and-and if he gets to work, the first thing he knows, he don't remember that pain, that hangover-he's too busy.
William Faulkner