William Faulkner

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.

William Faulkner

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it’s the risk, the gamble. In any event it’s a thing I need.

William Faulkner

They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.

William Faulkner

They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

William Faulkner

This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

William Faulkner

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

William Faulkner

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.

William Faulkner

To be young. To be young. There is nothing else like it: there is nothing else in the world.

William Faulkner

To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.

William Faulkner

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

William Faulkner