William Faulkner Quote

Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.

Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fighting and apparently inescapable----And so why should not their religion drive them to crucifixion...

Amid the pointing and the horror the clean flame.

If you're going to be a narcissistic schmuck, kid, don't bother studying Faulkner. Go straight to Brett Easton Ellis. He's the role model you need.

Civilization begins with distillation

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.