102 Quotes by John Kennedy Toole

This liberal doxy must be impaled on the member of a particularly large stallion!

My excellence confused them.

I refuse to “look up.” Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man’s fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.

Clean, hard-working, dependable, quiet type.′ Good God! What kind of monster is this that they want. I am afraid that I could never work for a concern with a worldview like that.

Although the style of each varied in crudity, the subjects of the paintings were relatively similar: camellias floating in bowls of water, azaleas tortured into ambitious flower arrangements, magnolias that looked like white windmills.

My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of mankind who regularly bowl their way to oblivion.

Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

It will all end very badly, Gus.

In the five years that he had dedicated to this work, he had produced an average of only six paragraphs monthly. He could not even remember what he had written in some of the tablets, and he realized that several were filled principally with doodling. However, Ignatius thought calmly, Rome was not built in a day.