The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
William FaulknerThe phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.
William FaulknerAll of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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