I decline to accept the end of man.
William Faulkner

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
William Faulkner

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
William Faulkner

Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
William Faulkner

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner

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

The past is never dead. It's not even past.
William Faulkner