Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
William FaulknerThere is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.
William FaulknerâĶI seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy paradoxical all I had done shadows all I had felt suffered taking visible form antic and perverse mocking without relevance inherent themselves with the denial of the significance they should have affirmed thinking I was I was not who was not was not who.
William FaulknerSurely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.
William Faulkner