Brent Bonds

“What is the nature of the search? you ask. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.”
― Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

“Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.”
― Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

“Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.”
― Walker Percy

“Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires to become a dentist and that is that. Southerners have trouble ruling out the possible. What happens to a... man to whom all things seem possible and every course of action open? Nothing of course.”
― Walker Percy, The Last Gentleman