Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls.
Walker PercyIn a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.
Walker PercyI sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.
Walker PercyI have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.
Walker Percy