Walker Percy Quotes
It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.
But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.
The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives.
A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.
This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.
You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
....With pulleys and ropes and time to plan one could move anything. Now that she thought of it, why couldn’t anyone do anything he or she wished, given the tools and the time.
...this miserable trick the romantic plays upon himself: of setting just beyond his reach the very thing he prizes.
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.
Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?