Infernale Quotes & Sayings

I couldn't make myself write serious; I was surrounded by serious: in monographs, in articles, in my own dissertation prospectus, in the very earnest e-mails of students telling me just why that paper couldn't be in on time, cross their hearts and hope to get an A-minus. — Lauren Willig

We are not in a foul humor, Belkin. We are in a corrupt-tempered moon. There is a difference, you know. — Rachel Heffington

The difference between a regular Catholic education and a Jesuit education is the difference between the army and the marines. — Gary Reilly

The Baby Name book can be a very dangerous tool in the hands of a prolific author. — Michelle M. Pillow

The censors were so far gone as to find the following sentence obscene: 'The factory gate waited for the student workers, thrown open in longing.' What can I say? This obscenity verdict was handed down by a censor in response to my script for my 1944 film about a girls' volunteer corps, Ichiban utsukushiku (The Most Beautiful). I could not fathom what it was he found to be obscene about this sentence. Probably none of you can either. But for the mentally disturbed censor this sentence was unquestionably obscene. He explained that the word 'gate' very vividly suggested to him the vagina! For these people suffering from sexual manias, anything and everything made them feel carnal desire. Because they were obscene themselves, everything seen through their obscene eyes naturally became obscene. Nothing more or less than a case of sexual pathology. — Akira Kurosawa

With us the disguise must be complete. The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite associations with which our society increasingly enshrouds every aspect of our environment. — Mark Rothko

I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not that you say, 'I want to write a science fiction book.' You start from the other end, and what you have to say dictates the form of it. — Doris Lessing

I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf. — Tom Robbins

Whether some may like it or not, I am still the farmer that I was born as and will continue to be one. — Sharad Pawar

All the things I'd done in my life, of all the versions of myself I'd lived out, there was one that had never changed: I was a writer. — Cheryl Strayed

Reminder: Dump Brains and Bowels in Hazmat Bin! — J.R. Rain