James K. Morrow - Hell Quotes

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Better a citizen in hell than a slave in New Jersey.

James K. Morrow

Hell was not perfect, but it was paradise compared with New Jersey.

James K. Morrow

Don't believe everything you hear about hell. Next time you run into some anti-hell propaganda, consider the source.
You inflict eternal punishment on people, Julie countered.
Merely because it's our job. And remember, we persecute only the guilty, which puts us one up on most other institutions.

James K. Morrow

Although Bix Constantine disbelieved in hell as intensely as he did in heaven, he knew what the place would be like. Hell, for Bix, was jealousy. It was failed journalists seeing their enemies receive Pulitzer Prizes. It was compulsive gamblers seeing jackpots gush from adjacent players' slot machines and sex-starved young men seeing their friends piled high with naked cheerleaders.

James K. Morrow