John Kennedy Toole Quotes
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Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.
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I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.
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It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere of this room rather comforting. Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. You may remember that Mark Twain preferred to lie supinely in bed while composing those rather dated and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.
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Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that were offenses against any criteria of taste and decency, reels and reels of perversion and blasphemy that stunned my disbelieving eyes, the shocked my virginal mind, and sealed my valve.
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When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.
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I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman.
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It's not your fate to be well treated," Ignatius cried. "You're an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you.
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You got a job?" "Ignatius hasta help me at home," Mrs. Reilly said. Her initial courage was failing a little, and she began to twist the lute string with the cord on the cake boxes. "I got terrible arthuritis." "I dust a bit," Ignatius told the policeman. "In addition, I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.
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So we see that even when Fortuna spins us downward, the wheel sometimes halts for a moment and we find ourselves in a good, small cycle within a larger bad cycle. The universe, of course, is based upon the principle of the circle within the circle. At the moment, I am in an inner circle. Of course, smaller circles within this circle are also possible.
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Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.
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A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency. I suspect that we are teetering on the edge of the abyss.
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I bet you cook good, huh?" Darlene asked. "Mother doesn't cook," Ignatius said dogmatically. "She burns.
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Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan.
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Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen
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Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.
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I suspect that I am the result of particularly weak conception on the part of my father. His sperm was probably emitted in a rather offhand manner.
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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.
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Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book on munitions from the library, constructing a bomb, and mailing it in plain paper to Myrna. Then he remembered that his library card had been revoked.
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I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.
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Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?
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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.
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Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity.
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My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail.
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Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.
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Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.
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This liberal doxy must be impaled upon the member of a particularly large stallion.
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The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.
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When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.
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Stop!' I cried imploringly to my god-like mind.
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you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.
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