2 quotes by William Faulkner

"Because a fellow can see ever now and then that children have more sense than him. But he don't like to admit to them until they have beards. After they have a beard, they are too busy because they don't know if they'll quite ever make it back to where they were in sense before they was haired, so you don't mind admitting then to folks that are worrying about the same thing that aint worth the worry that you are yourself."

"... I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other; and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words."