For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.
Walker PercyWhat nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits.
Walker PercyIn 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.
Walker PercyThere is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.
Walker PercyThis Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.
Walker PercyIf poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.
Walker Percy