Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him. — Walker Percy Catholic Copy Share Image
Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral. — Walker Percy Desire Copy Share Image
I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity. — Walker Percy Beautiful Copy Share Image
If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search. — Walker Percy Choices Copy Share Image
Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness. — Walker Percy Cuteness Copy Share Image
I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age. — Walker Percy Age Copy Share Image
“I lived in the Quarter for two years, but in the end I got tired of Birmingham businessmen smirking around Bourbon Street… — Walker Percy Bourbon street Copy Share Image
Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature? — Walker Percy Animal Copy Share Image
Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know. — Walker Percy Fiction Copy Share Image
A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious. — Walker Percy Intrigue Copy Share Image
“To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be… — Walker Percy Despair Copy Share Image
Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Polarities of the 'authentic' vs. the 'inauthentic' are easily discernible in recreational modes. The criteria of authenticity are not necessarily objective but… — Walker Percy Authenticity Copy Share Image
“For example, she did not mind at all if Christendom should be done for, stove in, kaput, screwed up once and all.… — Walker Percy Christendom Copy Share Image
One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people.… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“What does a man live for but to have a girl, use his mind, practice his trade, drink a drink, read a… — Walker Percy Books Copy Share Image
Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“In this case I read on. And on. First with the sinking feeling that it was not bad enough to quit, then… — Walker Percy Excitement Copy Share Image
“The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“A variant of the amnesic-plot device is the inadvertent return of the amnesiac to home territory, where he is welcomed by a… — Walker Percy Beautiful woman Copy Share Image
“At this moment the President is beginning to speak in New Orleans and the Vice-President is mounting the platform at NASA a… — Walker Percy Law and order Copy Share Image
The conviction: I will not tolerate this age. The freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No… — Walker Percy Action Copy Share Image
“Ours is the only civilization in history which has enshrined mediocrity as its national ideal. Others have been corrupt, but leave it… — Walker Percy Character Copy Share Image
“Thought Experiment: You are a native of New York City, you live in New York, work in New York, travel about the… — Walker Percy Experiment Copy Share Image
What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so… — Walker Percy Cast away Copy Share Image
“Imagine you are a member of a tour visiting Greece. The group goes to the Parthenon. It is a bore. Few people… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North. — Walker Percy Cities Copy Share Image
Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition. — Walker Percy Book Copy Share Image
We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Why did God make woman so beautiful and man with such a loving heart? — Walker Percy Beautiful Copy Share Image
“How strange to think that you cannot pass along the discovery.” — Walker Percy Discovery Copy Share Image
