Burrascano Guidelines Quotes

#1. We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.

Franz Kafka

#2. I scared myself, because once you've thought long and hard enough about doing something that is colossally stupid, you feel like you've actually done it, and then you're never quite sure what your limits are.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#3. It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.

Saint Ignatius

#4. When you're on stage with an audience, the director's nowhere to be seen. He's onto the next job.

Ian McKellen

#5. The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about it for a period of months to years.

Charles Stross