Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.
William FaulknerIt's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.
William FaulknerWhatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.
William FaulknerI can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.
William Faulkner