Walker Percy Quotes

Every place of arrival should have a booth set up and manned by an ordinary person whose task it is ...

I am consoled only to see that I was not mistaken: Chicago is just as I remembered it. I was here tw...

Polarities of the 'authentic' vs. the 'inauthentic' are easily discernible in recreational modes. Th...

Last summer I picked up a yellow scrap of newspaper and read of a Biloxi election in 1948, and in it...

How much better it would be if they weren't so damn understanding--if they kicked me out of the hous...

Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?

Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know wh...

What is the nature of the search? you ask. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not ...

This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and u...

People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each...

...this miserable trick the romantic plays upon himself: of setting just beyond his reach the very t...

My laps-meter, the first caliper of the soul and the first hope of bridging the dread chasm that has...

Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it wi...

The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappo...

It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary low...

You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technolo...

You can get all A's and still flunk life.

....With pulleys and ropes and time to plan one could move anything. Now that she thought of it, why...

Today is my thirtieth birthday and I sit on the ocean wave in the schoolyard and wait for Kate and t...

Just because Jimmy Swaggart believes in God doesn't mean that God does not exist.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and techn...

Such terms as 'diagnosis' and 'pathology' are of course used analogically here, but I am using the w...

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that w...

Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pl...

If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoe...

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

Why do people often feel bad in good environments and good in bad environments? Why did Mother Teres...

It's one thing to develop a nostalgia for home while you're boozing with Yankee writers in Martha's ...

The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock ...

Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help BookorHow you can survive in the Cosmos about which you know ...

Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?

How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live...

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the vict...

The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure me...

As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they ...

Lonnie's monotonous speech gives him an advantage, the same advantage foreigners have: his words are...