891 Quotes by William Faulkner

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 of the ones who suffer the bereavement.

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

Any live man is better than any dead man.

Meet Mrs. Bundren, he says.

Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it.

It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.

It’s Cash and Jewel and Varadaman and Dewey Del’, pa says kind of hangdog and proud too, with this teeth and all, even if he wouldn’t look at us. ‘Meet Mrs Bundren’, he says.

It does last,” Horace said. “Spring does. You’d almost think there was some purpose to it.

Only a fool tries to outsmart smart people, and anyone that tries to fool fools is himself already one.