One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in a second's glance see you whole, size you up, place you in a way in which you cannot and never will, even though you have spent a lifetime with yourself, live in the Century of the Self, and therefore ought to know yourself best of all.
Walker PercyThe 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.
Walker PercyIn a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.
Walker PercyGenius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
Walker Percy