891 Quotes by William Faulkner

Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?

A man never gets anywhere if facts and his ledgers don't square.

The past isn't over. It isn't even past.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.

People everywhere are about the same, but ... it did seem that in a small town, where evil is harder to accomplish, where opportunities for privacy are scarcer, that people can invent more of it in other people's names. Because that was all it required: that idea, that single idle word blown from mind to mind.

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.