I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to me… - William Faulkner

Sex and death: the front door and the back door of the world.

Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.

It was like the last act on a set stage. It was the beginning of the end of something, he didn't know what except that he would not grieve. He would be humble and proud that he had been found worthy to be a part of it too or even just to see it too.