Walker Percy Quotes

You can get all A's and still flunk life.

Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.

Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?