Ocupation: Novelist
Life: December 17, 1937 - March 26, 1969
Birthday: December 17
Death: March 26
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 higher quality.
source: John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.149, LSU Press
topic: Morning, Quality, Penance, Sluggish