“So we see that even when Fortuna spins us downward, the wheel sometimes halts for a moment and we find ourselves in… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
“Fortuna wished to make amends. Somehow she had summoned and flushed Myrna minx from a subway tube, from some picket line, from… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life. — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,' Ignatius belched, 'Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
“Myrna was not astigmatic; the lenses were clear glass; she wore the glasses to prove her dedication and intensity of purpose.” — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share
“She ran into the bathroom and powdered her face and the front of her dress, drew a surrealistic version of a mouth beneath her… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share
“Is it the part of the police department to harass me when this city is a flagrant vice capital of the civilized world?" Ignatius… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share
employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share
Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share
“I suspect that beneath your offensively and vulgarly effeminate façade there may be a soul of sorts. Have you read widely in Boethius?" "Who?… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share
I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share
“In my private apocalypse he will be impaled upon his own nightstick.” — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share
Psycho? The woman's senile. We had to stop at about thirty gas stations on the way over here. Finally I got tired of getting… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share
I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one. — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share
“Hey! All you peoples draggin along here. Stop and come stick your ass on a Night of Joy stool," he started again. "Night of… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share
“Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs.” — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share
“Every difficult work presents us with a choice of whether to judge the author inept for not being clear, or ourselves stupid for not… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share
“Had you ‘artists’ had a part in the decoration of the Sistine Chapel, it would have ended up looking like a particularly vulgar train… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share
