It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
William FaulknerMen have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
William FaulknerOur most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.
William Faulkner...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
William Faulkner