Abyss Quote by John Kennedy Toole

“Myrna was not astigmatic; the lenses were clear glass; she wore the glasses to prove her dedication and intensity of purpose.”

— John Kennedy Toole

“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

“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

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

“Do I believe the total perversion that I am witnessing?”

— John Kennedy Toole

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

“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

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

“In my private apocalypse he will be impaled upon his own nightstick.”

— John Kennedy Toole

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

I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.

— John Kennedy Toole

“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