I had learned a little about writing from Soldier's Pay - how to approach language, words: not with seriousness so much as an essayist does, but with a kind of alert respect, as you approach dynamite; even with joy, as you approach women: perhaps with the same secretly unscrupulous intentions.
William FaulknerIt seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.
William Faulkner