292: Samuel Beckett

“Let me go to hell, that’s all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me.” —Samuel Beckett

That would be his heaven.

291: Anton LaVey

“There is no heaven, there is no hell, except here on Earth.” —Anton LaVey

And we do a damned fine job of making it.

290: Daniel Defoe

“Pride, the first peer, and president of hell.”
—Daniel Defoe

Though strict term limits apply.