...the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agon… - William Faulkner

The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself

If we could have just done something so dreadful and Father said That's sad too people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today and I said, You can shirk all things and he said, Ah can you.

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light has turned copper: in the eye portentous, in the nose sulphurous, smelling of lightning.