I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind — and that of … - William Faulkner

I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind — and that of the minds of the ones who suffer the bereavement.

Folks are funny. They can't stick to one way of thinking or doing anything unless they get a new reason for doing it ever so often.

What he was now seeing was the street lonely, savage, and cool. That was it: cool; he was thinking, saying aloud to himself sometimes, “I better move. I better get away from here.”

But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.

When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.