Walker Percy Quotes

I don't mind categories, but it's so hard to find one that fits.

People try to contain things by putting them into categories. I don't.

I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.

Miscellaneous is always the largest category.

People like to pigeonhole you.

I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

I hate to be categorized.

People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories.

If you can't pigeon-hole yourself, who can you pigeon-hole?

I hate being categorized.

I'm not the only one that people try to put in a box. I think it's easier for people to understand things when they can categorize them.

i happen to enjoy categorization.

The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.

One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling processes involve a trade-off of costs and benefits. In general, the more finely the sorting is done, the greater the benefits - and the costs... Sorting and labeling, whether of people or of things, is a sorting and labeling of probabilities rather than of certainties.

I think I underestimated the way people bracket you.

We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and it's a totally understandable need because we are animals and we need to understand order and where to fit in.

In the male homosexual community, we love to label and categorize and organize each other as if we are in a never-ending high school biology class.

Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound like? Does it sound like this?'

Lists have always implied social order.

I love taxonomies, categories, ways of dividing people into groups.

Hollywood likes to label everyone so you're easier to identify.

I don't want to be lumped into any categories.

I guess if I'm a product, either you're chocolate, you're vanilla or you're butterscotch. You can't be all three.