John Kennedy Toole Quotes

I doubt whether any hack, under pressure, could pen such atrocious melodrama,

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...

I really have had little to do with them, for I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.

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.

I want that Easter Ham. Where's my Thanksgiving Turkey? Miss Trixie snarled

I was appalled that so meaningless a person would dare such effrontery.

I would very much like to know what the Founding Fathers would say if they could see these children being debauched to further the cause of Clearasil. However, I always suspected that democracy would...

It will all end very badly, Gus

It's not your fate to be well treated, Ignatius cried. You're an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you.

I’ve gained pounds lying continuously in bed, seeking surcease and sublimation in food.

Like a bitch in heat, I seem to attract a coterie of policemen and sanitation officials.

Look at that. She think I got siphlus and TB and a hard-on and I gonna cut her up with a razor and lif her purse. Ooo-wee.

Mercaderes y charlatanes se hicieron con el control de Europa, llamando a su insidioso evangelio La Ilustración. El día de la plaga estaba próximo; pero de las cenizas de la humanidad no surgió ningún...

My excellence confused them

No. That was out of the question. Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and world-view and mind.

Once in high school someone had shown him a pornographic photograph, and he had collapsed against a watercooler, injuring his ear. This photograph was far superior.

Over the years I have become very good at getting out of things I don’t want to do. And if ever there was something I didn’t want to do, this was surely it: to deal with the mother of a dead novelist...

Parce que, à sa façon de causer, on voyait bien que le gars était allé très longtemps à l'école. C'était probablement ce qui l'avait rendu dingue.

Remember I’m from Dauphine Street. We useta put the kitchen chairs out on the banquette and set there till midnight sometimes waiting for the house to cool off. And the things the people down here say...

Saltando vigorosamente de costado, Ignatius percibió que ascendia por su garganta un eructo, pero cuando abrió esperanzado la boca, sólo emitió un leve soplido. Aun así, los saltos tuvieron ciertos ef...