He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."(on Ernest Hemingway

— William Faulkner

He looked at her, stripped naked for the instant of verbiage and deceit.

— William Faulkner

Here I am tired I am tired of running of having to carry my life like it was a basket of eggs

— William Faulkner

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

— William Faulkner

I am the chosen of the Lord, for who He love, so doth He chastised. But I am durn if He don't take some curious ways to show it, seems like.

— William Faulkner

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

— William Faulkner

I believe that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of man's puny, inexhaustible, voice still talking! ...not simply because man alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because man has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion, sacrifice and endurance.

— William Faulkner

I can't do anything. Just put it off. And that don't do no good. I reckon it belong to me. I reckon what I'm going to get ain't no more than mine.

— William Faulkner

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

— William Faulkner

I decline to accept the end of men... I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

— William Faulkner