In all honesty it was easier to believe it in cool Long Island for its very outrageousness where nobody believed anything very seriously than in hot … - Walker Percy

I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.

For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. In the middle of a sentence it will come over me: yes, beyond a doubt this is death. There is little to do but groan and make an excuse and slip away as quickly as one can.

Peace is only better than war if peace is not hell too. War being hell makes sense.