"Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?"
- John Kennedy Toole
"She ran into the bathroom and powdered her face and the front of her dress, drew a surrealistic version of a mouth beneath her nose, and dashed into her bedroom to find a coat."
"Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns."
"Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me."
"But I knew the way the people in the town thought about things. They always had some time left over from their life to bother about other people and what they did. They thought they had to get togethe..."
"Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that were offenses against any criteria of taste ..."
"Talc: You have been found guilty of misleading and perverting the young. I decree that you be hung by your underdeveloped testicles until dead. ZORRO"
"Oh, my God!" Ignatius bellowed from the front of the house. "What an egregious insult to good taste."
"This was the sort of girl who should be attending college, not ones like that dreadful Minkoff girl, that brutal and slovenly girl who had almost been raped by one of the janitors just outside of his ..."