Quotes About John Kennedy Toole

Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.

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 really don't have the time to discuss the errors of your value judgements.

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.

The suicide John Kennedy Toole is probably the most famous True Outsider, though it pains me to admit that I regard A Confederacy of Dunces as one of the most overrated novels ever published. I am glad, all the same, that it was published, if only for the moments of reflection it caused those who rejected it to suffer.

This liberal doxy must be impaled on the member of a particularly large stallion!

Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan.

Mrs. Reilly called in that accent that occurs south of New Jersey only in New Orleans, that Hoboken near the Gulf of Mexico.

This is a floral abortion,' Ignatius commented irritably and tapped the vase with his cutlas. 'Dyed flowers are unnatural and perverse and, I suspect, obscene also. I can see that I am going to have my hands full with you people.

I don't drive. Will you kindly go away? I am waiting for my mother.

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.

It would bring all of my latent anxieties to a head, and the result, I fear, would be very ugly indeed.

That fat freak a guarantee one hunner percen nucular bum. Shit. Drop him on somebody, everbody gettin caught in the fallout, gettin their ass blowed up.

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.

Long years of practice and usage had made her rump an unusually versatile and dexterous thing.

The scheme is too breathtaking for the literal, liberal minx mind mired in a claustrophobic clutch of clichés.

I also told the students that, for the sake of humanity's future, I hoped that they were all sterile.