William Faulkner

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”

“A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune”

“Maybe nothing ever happens once and is finished. Maybe happen is never once but like ripples maybe on water after the pebble sinks, the ripples moving on, spreading, the pool attached by a n...”

“I give it (grandfather's watch) to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it.”

“And so I told myself to take that one. Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time com...”

“Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness.”

“Time? Time? Why worry about something that takes care of itself so well? You were born with the habit of consuming time. Be satisfied with that.”

“The universal benefit of religion is that it gets the children out of the house on Sunday mornings.' 'But education gets them out of the house five days a week.”