"...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.'What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.'Employers sense in me a denial of their values.' He rolled over onto his back. 'The..."
- John Kennedy Toole
"It smells terrible in here.'Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find th..."
"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 cheese dip."
"The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors."
"Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity."
"This river is famed in atrocious song and verse; the most prevalent motif is one which attempts to make of the river an ersatz father figure. Actually, the Mississippi River is a treacherous and sinis..."
"Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking. "
"I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much high..."
"I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one."
"To you character is a psychosis. Integrity is a complex."