Ignatius J Reilly Quotes

#1. Yes, my enormous sexual appetite tends to scare men away. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to find my dinner date.

Stacia Kane

#2. I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially grueling, a teen-age beach musical. I almost collapsed during the singing sequence on surfboard.

John Kennedy Toole

#3. I would want to go to the future, 25 years in the future, and see if the Cubs ever win a World Series.

Jake Johnson

#4. My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail.

John Kennedy Toole

#5. I like inventing things when I write rather than autobiography.

Romesh Gunesekera

#6. I like characters like Ignatius Reilly in 'A Confederacy of Dunces' and Ricky Gervais's character in 'The Office.' They think one thing about themselves, but the truth is as far from that as it can be. So I began to think about how to put that kind of character in a book for kids.

Stephan Pastis

#7. I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

Sherman Alexie

#8. Winter will be here soon.

Veronica Roth

#9. The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge ... New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.

John Kennedy Toole

#10. Understanding has no cost, yet, it is too expensive for some people to purchase

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#11. Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

Jennifer Lynch