Best John Kennedy Toole Quotes
- Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book… Been
- You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with… Gone
- ... I tried to end our little duel. I called out pacifying words; I entreated; I finally surrendered. Still Clyde came, my pirate costume so… Apparently
- with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy. Ascendancy
- 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 a… Century
- Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate. Current
- I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery. Been
- you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces. Always Tell
- This liberal doxy must be impaled on the member of a particularly large stallion! Doxy
- Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan. Courtesan
- Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me? Attitude
- I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one. Funny
- The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . .… Apathy
- Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,' Ignatius belched, 'Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me on high, divinity. Belched
- It's not your fate to be well treated," Ignatius cried. "You're an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you. Confuse
- I bet you cook good, huh?" Darlene asked. "Mother doesn't cook," Ignatius said dogmatically. "She burns. Asked
- Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite! Capricious
- I was getting tired about what the preacher called Christian. Anything he did was Christian, and the people in his church believed it, too. If… Believe
- I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially… Age