A gentleman can live through anything.
~ William Faulkner

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Well, between Scotch and nothin’, I suppose I’d take Scotch. It’s the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.
~ William Faulkner

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Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
~ William Faulkner

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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people.
~ William Faulkner

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Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn’t have needed anyone since.
~ William Faulkner

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Life is motion, and motion is concerned with what makes man move — which is ambition, power, pleasure.
~ William Faulkner

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You should approach Joyce’s Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
~ William Faulkner

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By temperament I’m a vagabond and a tramp.
~ William Faulkner

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The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.
~ William Faulkner

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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me.
~ William Faulkner

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