William Faulkner

Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.

William Faulkner

Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

William Faulkner

Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.

William Faulkner

Fiction is often the best fact.

William Faulkner

Folks are funny. They can’t stick to one way of thinking or doing anything unless they get a new reason for doing it ever so often.

William Faulkner

Forget grief. Only an idiot has no grief, and only a fool would forget it. What else is there in this world sharp enough to stick to your guts?

William Faulkner

He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

William Faulkner

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

William Faulkner

He was as calm as a god who has seen both life and death, and seen nothing of particular importance in either of them.

William Faulkner

He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn’t smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.

William Faulkner