Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting. - William Faulkner

It's Cash and Jewel and Varadaman and Dewey Del', pa says kind of hangdog and proud too, with this teeth and all, even if he wouldn't look at us. 'Meet Mrs Bundren', he says.

It is because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it. That's what is so terrible. That he can bear anything, anything.

Even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as an honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.