102 Quotes by John Kennedy Toole

In other words, you want to become totally bourgeois. You people have all been brainwashed. I imagine that you’d like to become a success or something equally vile.

When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life. Ignatius was about to say this to himself; then he remembered that he went to the movies almost every night, no matter which way Fortuna was spinning.

Like two figures in the medieval Morality play, Pragmatism and Morality spar in the boxing ring of my brain.