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,....

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

Just because Jimmy Swaggart believes in God doesn't mean that God does not exist.

Every place of arrival should have a booth set up and manned by an ordinary person whose task it is to....

Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether....

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....

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory.....

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

The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment....