Walker Percy, The Moviegoer Quotes
In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.
Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?
As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.
People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that they have much in common.
...this miserable trick the romantic plays upon himself: of setting just beyond his reach the very thing he prizes.