Quotes by : Walker Percy

It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered....

Today is my thirtieth birthday and I sit on the ocean wave in the schoolyard and wait for Kate and think....

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that....

Last summer I picked up a yellow scrap of newspaper and read of a Biloxi election in 1948, and in it....

You can get all A's and still flunk life.

My laps-meter, the first caliper of the soul and the first hope of bridging the dread chasm that has....

Such terms as 'diagnosis' and 'pathology' are of course used analogically here, but I am using the word....

But then a peculiar thing happened. I became extraordinarily affected by the summer afternoons in the....

The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable....

As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are....