Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the wor — Walker Percy

"As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair."

"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free. (2.12)."

"The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life."

"She refers to a phenomenon of moviegoing which I have called certification. Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere. (1.7)."

"Christians talk about the horror of sin, but they have overlooked something. They keep talking as if everyone were a great sinner, when the truth is that nowadays one is hardly up to it. There is very little sin in the depths of the malaise. The highest moment of a malaisians life can be the moment when he manages to sin like a proper human (Look at us, Binx — my vagabond friends as good as cried out to me — were sinning! Were succeeding! Were human after all!)."

"A good rotation. A rotation I define as the experiencing of the new beyond the expectation of the experiencing of the new."