John Kennedy Toole Quotes

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

You know, manacles and chains have functions in modern life which their fevered inventors must never have considered in an earlier and simpler age. If I were a suburban developer, I would attach at le...

The tight trousers that bulged offensively in the crotch in violation of all rules of theology and geometry.

But who are we to question the motives of these giants of commerce whose whims rule the course of our nation.

A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either...

And who knows? Those people might have much better things to do than to loiter about Levy Pants, such as composing jazz or creating new dances or doing whatever those things are that they do with such...

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.

I was in the Pre-School Play section, but we never played like the name said. We had to listen to stories some old woman read to us out of a grownup book that we didn’t understand.

Mr. Gonzalez watched Mr. Zalatimo probing his long index finger high into one of his nostrils. What would this one do? His feet tingled with fear.

Mrs. Reilly looked at her son slyly and asked, Ignatius, you sure you not a communiss? Oh, my God! Ignatius bellowed. Every day I am subjected to a McCarthyite witch-hunt in this crumbling building. N...

This guy was a real Pscyho' Mr. Levy said.'To you character is a psychosis, integrity is a complex. I've heard it all before.

Fortuna, that vicious slut.

A block that had moved into the twentieth century carelessly and uncaringly—and with very limited funds.