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

- William Faulkner

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would …

- William Faulkner

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

- William Faulkner

Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.

- William Faulkner

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better tha…

- William Faulkner

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

- William Faulkner

The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and co…

- William Faulkner

Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.

- William Faulkner

Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

- William Faulkner