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John Kennedy Toole (1937 – 1969)


American novelist best known for his posthumously published comic novel A Confederacy of Dunces, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981.
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John Kennedy Toole
You can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.
Toole quotes
"The war had been on for quite a while now when Poppa got his notice from the draft. He didn't have to go, but he more or less enlisted. Mother and I and Aunt Mae went down to the train to see him off, and when he left he kissed Mother and he cried, and I'd never seen a man cry before. The train pulled away, and we stood there and watched it go, and Mother kept looking long after it had passed around the hill.
Toole
""With the breakdown of the Medieval system, the gods of Chaos, Lunacy, and Bad Taste gained ascendancy."




Toole John Kennedy quotes
The human desire for food and sex is relatively equal. If there are armed rapes, why should there not be armed hot dog thefts?
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