The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
William Faulkner

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

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
William Faulkner

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.
William Faulkner

The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
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

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

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
William Faulkner

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

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

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.
William Faulkner

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
William Faulkner

Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.
William Faulkner

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
William Faulkner