John Kennedy Toole Quotes

Talc: You have been found guilty of misleading and perverting the young. I decree that you be hung b...

This river is famed in atrocious song and verse; the most prevalent motif is one which attempts to m...

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel fr...

It smells terrible in here.'Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certai...

Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me.

Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?

Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.

But I knew the way the people in the town thought about things. They always had some time left over ...

This was the sort of girl who should be attending college, not ones like that dreadful Minkoff girl,...

To you character is a psychosis. Integrity is a complex.

Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was ...

I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.

Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns.

Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractio...

I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make...

She ran into the bathroom and powdered her face and the front of her dress, drew a surrealistic vers...

...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.'What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a...

The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.

Oh, my God!" Ignatius bellowed from the front of the house. "What an egregious insult to good taste.