" By the very cogent anthropology of Judeo-Christianity, whether or not one agreed with it, human existence was by no means to be understood as the transaction of a higher organism satisfying this or that need from its environment, by being “creative” or enjoying “meaningful relationships,” but as the journey of a wayfarer along life’s way. The "

― Walker Percy , The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other