Quotes by : Walker Percy

Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases,....

I am consoled only to see that I was not mistaken: Chicago is just as I remembered it. I was here twenty....

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

Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will....

Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about....

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 difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on....

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