The Wisdom of Perversity Quotes

“Maybe becoming a monster is a sign of strength.”
― Rafael Yglesias, The Wisdom of Perversity

“There’s nothing that makes an artist more beloved than the audience pitying him because his work comes at a price they would never pay.”
― Rafael Yglesias, The Wisdom of Perversity

“You have to feed the press or they’ll eat you.”
― Rafael Yglesias, The Wisdom of Perversity

“I’m willing to keep an open mind about the existence of God or whether or not Joye’s Ulysses is a great novel, but I have no doubt that one way or another child molesters are nurtured, not born.”
― Rafael Yglesias, The Wisdom of Perversity

“Something about Christmas decorations inspired delinquency.”
― Rafael Yglesias, The Wisdom of Perversity

“Sooner or later everyone is defeated by their desires.”
― Rafael Yglesias, The Wisdom of Perversity

“For a while she had a vague longing to be a psychologist. “Talking therapy is dead,” Gary said when she raised the idea. “It’s all pills now.”
― Rafael Yglesias, The Wisdom of Perversity

“The world is chock-full of monsters.”
― Rafael Yglesias, The Wisdom of Perversity

“Percocet? Seriously?” Brian laughed bitterly. “That’s so nineties. He should at least update his addictions.”
― Rafael Yglesias, The Wisdom of Perversity

“It was always the most striking scene, the best work, the most disturbing emotion and unsettling idea that attracts criticism.”
― Rafael Yglesias, The Wisdom of Perversity

“Jeff had learned the wisdom of perversity and made his lonely secret into art.”
― Rafael Yglesias, The Wisdom of Perversity

“Nothing on earth is more vicious than a disappointed American public.”
― Rafael Yglesias, The Wisdom of Perversity

“Otherwise the silence in the room was profound, the silence of places Brian had not yet been: gazing at the lifeless body of a beloved, the echo of a lost illusion, the tinnitus of betrayal.”
― Rafael Yglesias, The Wisdom of Perversity

“Gary was a righteous man, frank about his lusts, and they were the lusts of the righteous: for sugar and fat and the succour of a wife.”
― Rafael Yglesias, The Wisdom of Perversity

“You could become anyone, including your real self.”
― Rafael Yglesias, The Wisdom of Perversity

“Oh God, I’m old and I’ve never been young.”
― Rafael Yglesias, The Wisdom of Perversity

“How far we’ve come, Jeff,” Brian whispered to the cold, wet streets. “How far the geeky boys have come.”
― Rafael Yglesias, The Wisdom of Perversity

“After puberty, you look to one sex for more than friendship and to the other for less-than-complete intimacy.”
― Rafael Yglesias, The Wisdom of Perversity

“Little girls think their fathers will save them. Women know better.”
― Rafael Yglesias, The Wisdom of Perversity

“You see, I’m not the hack. God is. And the Old Fart doesn’t know how to write a conclusion that’ll satisfy his audience. He leaves that to us, his lost children, doing his dirty work, inventing uplifting endings to erase his mistakes.”
― Rafael Yglesias, The Wisdom of Perversity

“Also, serial killers, child killers, they’re hot, they’re the new cool kids, the new vampires, the new zombies, everybody’s favourite spook monster.”
― Rafael Yglesias, The Wisdom of Perversity