A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories. — Walker Percy Books Copy Share Image
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past. — Walker Percy Death Copy Share Image
What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits. — Walker Percy Belief Copy Share Image
We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away. — Walker Percy Faces Copy Share Image
Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense. — Walker Percy Hell Copy Share Image
Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon. — Walker Percy 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
It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Pascal told only half the story. He said man was a thinking reed. What man is, is a thinking reed and a… — Walker Percy Half the story Copy Share Image
As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair. — Walker Percy Despair Copy Share Image
“Nowadays when a good-looking woman flirts with me, however idly, I guffaw like some ruddy English lord, haw haw, har har, harr… — Walker Percy Flirts Copy Share Image
“...this miserable trick the romantic plays upon himself: of setting just beyond his reach the very thing he prizes.” — Walker Percy Love Copy Share Image
“I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen.” — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not… — Walker Percy Age 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
I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might… — Walker Percy Cabins Copy Share Image
“The earth-self observing the Cosmos and trying to understand the Cosmos by scientific principles from which its self is excluded is, beyond… — Walker Percy Cosmos Copy Share Image
“This is the perennial danger which besets semiotics: what with man being preeminently the sign-using creature, and what with man using signs… — Walker Percy Danger Copy Share Image
Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world… — Walker Percy Alive Copy Share Image
“What is the nature of the search? you ask. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in… — Walker Percy Despair Copy Share Image
“For me, certain signifiers fit you, and not others. For me, all signifiers fit me, one as well as another. I am… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“but we know in the South that the real purpose of manners is to make life easier for everyone, easier both to… — Walker Percy Business Copy Share Image
“The Self since the time of Descartes has been stranded, split off from everything else in the Cosmos, a mind which professes… — Walker Percy Human condition Copy Share Image
“Unlike him I had been unable to escape into the simple complexities of science. All he had to do was solve the… — Walker Percy Life Copy Share Image
“Why do people often feel bad in good environments and good in bad environments? Why did Mother Teresa think that affluent Westerners… — Walker Percy Nature Copy Share Image
“The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“In some evolving civilizations, for reasons which we don't entirely understand, the evolution of consciousness is attended by a disaster of some… — Walker Percy Consciousness Copy Share Image
“ Question (The Great Problematic): Will the ultimate liberation of the erotic from its dialectical relationship with Christianity result in (a) The… — Walker Percy Best day Copy Share Image
“Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book or How you can survive in the Cosmos about which you know more and… — Walker Percy Black hole Copy Share Image
“I don't quite know what we're doing on this insignificant cinder spinning away in a dark corner of the universe. That is… — Walker Percy Cinder Copy Share Image
To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off. — Walker Percy Accounted Copy Share Image
“At night the years come back and perch around my bed like ghosts.” — Walker Percy Ghosts Copy Share Image
“Have you noticed that the narrower the view the more you can see? For the first time I understand how old ladies… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Is all niceness then or is all buggery? How can a man be forty-five years old and still not know whether all… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“…With pulleys and ropes and time to plan one could move anything. Now that she thought of it, why couldn’t anyone do… — Walker Percy Existence Copy Share Image
