A man’s moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the Gods in order to gain from them the right to dream. — William Faulkner
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once. — William Faulkner
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. — William Faulkner
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder. — William Faulkner
I’m bad and I’m going to hell, and I don’t care. I’d rather be in hell than anywhere where you are. — William Faulkner
If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: the “ode on a grecian urn” is worth any number of old ladies. — William Faulkner
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, hemingway, dostoevski, all of us. — William Faulkner
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That’s how he finds that he can bear anything. — William Faulkner
Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it. — William Faulkner
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. — William Faulkner
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky. — William Faulkner
Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it… — William Faulkner
Perhaps they were right in putting love into books… perhaps it could not live anywhere else. — William Faulkner