Alan Cornett

“Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.”
― Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

“I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters and calculators; I was groping for faith, honor, and prescriptive loyalties. I would have given any number of neo-classical pediments for one poor battered gargoyle.”
― Russell Kirk

“‎His lips felt dry with a literal thirst for righteousness, which was like a glass of ice-cold water on a table in another man's room.”
― Graham Greene, Orient Express

“She was proud of her power of prophecy, though she had not yet lived to see any of her prophecies fulfilled.”
― Graham Greene, Orient Express