Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while.
William FaulknerIt seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.
William FaulknerThat's sad too, people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today
William FaulknerSo vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.
William FaulknerThe artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
William Faulkner