Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.

- Walker Percy

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

- Walker Percy

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

- Walker Percy

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

- Walker Percy

For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. In the middle of a sentence it wi…

- Walker Percy

How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had …

- Walker Percy

Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.

- Walker Percy

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

- Walker Percy

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

- Walker Percy