891 Quotes by William Faulkner

Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.

Surely 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.

Listen to the voices.

Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you

Did you ever have a sister? did you?

The poets are almost always wrong about the facts. That's because they're not interested in the facts, only the truth.

Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.

I 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.

She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.