As I Lay Dying

by William Faulkner

“It’s like a man that’s let everything slide all his life to get set on something that will make the most trouble for everybody he knows.”

I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the same as he was set on staying still, like it aint the moving he hates so much as the starting and the stopping.

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

Sometimes I aint so sho who’s got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint.

Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It’s like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it’s the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.