Famous quotes containing the words faulkner and/or reads:
“You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)
“Life is beautiful. He who reads that
As in the window of some distant, speeding train
Knows what he wants, and what will befall.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)