William Faulkner

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.

William Faulkner

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy. His wife and children may be shoeless; someone will always buy him drink or weapons.

William Faulkner

War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.

William Faulkner

We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

William Faulkner

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

William Faulkner

We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it’s not always.

William Faulkner

What a writer’s obituary should read – he wrote the books, then he died.

William Faulkner

What’s wrong with this world is, it’s not finished yet. It is not competed to the point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, ‘It is finished. We made it and it works.’

William Faulkner

When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there’s no holding me.

William Faulkner

When ideas come, I write them; when they don’t come, I don’t.

William Faulkner