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
Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North. — Walker Percy Cities 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
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
Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life? — Walker Percy Life Copy Share Image
In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished. — Walker Percy Christian inspirational 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
There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at… — Walker Percy 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
“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
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
“The self has no sign of itself... For me, certain signifiers fit you, and not others. For me, all signifiers fit me,… — Walker Percy Identity Copy Share Image
Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in… — Walker Percy Action Copy Share Image
“...the self in the twentieth century is a voracious nought which expands like the feeding vacuole of an amoeba seeking to nourish… — Walker Percy Identity 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
For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster,… — Walker Percy Angel Copy Share Image
The so-called sexual revolution is not, as advertised, a liberation of sexual behavior but rather its reversal. In former days, even under… — Walker Percy Behavior Copy Share Image
“Why do people often feel bad in good environments and good in bad environments? Why did Mother Teresta think that affluent Westerners… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“I'll make you a little confession. I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another… — Walker Percy Common man Copy Share Image
“You say it is a simple thing surely, all gain and no loss, to pick up a good-looking woman and head for… — Walker Percy First Day 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
Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral. — Walker Percy Desire Copy Share Image
Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him. — Walker Percy Catholic Copy Share Image
Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion. — Walker Percy Diversion Copy Share Image
Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart? — Walker Percy Beautiful Copy Share Image
Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? — Walker Percy Death Copy Share Image
