“The thing is to let life assault you, make yourself as defenseless as you can. If it bruises you, don't protest. Love… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
“So much of human life is animal life: we respond to each other as animals.” — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
“Maybe a man can change. It helps when you've been injured, when you've been dislodged from the complacent routines of your life.… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
“One of the sad little secrets of the writing life is that it’s become like the movie business, where a movie has… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
“I know it sounds strange but it’s true. I mean that you’re open to life. You’re open to being surprised. You’re open… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
“A man can't understand how a woman feels--how she can offer up her entire life to him. The man thinks she's bringing… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
“...life brings you everything at once. You can be in misery because of the misery of your daughter at the same time… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
“I know it sounds strange but it’s true. I mean that you’re open to life. You’re open to being surprised. You’re open… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
“...they had lived, they'd lived intensely. But no matter how deeply you live, it comes to this in the end: one of you will… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
“We wish for a symmetry of feeling, but we rarely get it. It is painful to be the one who loves more, and painful… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
“So you can keep going. You can stay young. There's no inevitable law of diminishment: everyone who fades fades for his own reason.” — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
“The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories.” — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
“One of the sad little secrets of the writing life is that it’s become like the movie business, where a movie has to “open… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
“He had found himself ridiculously impressed by this young woman. She would blow in like a little whirlwind, eager to hear him say wise… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
“...life brings you everything at once. You can be in misery because of the misery of your daughter at the same time as you're… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
“It's foolish to speak of your happiness before you're sure you have it.” — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
You seize your freedom in a spirit of rebelliousness, exuberance, defiant joy. But to live that choice -- over the weeks and months and… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
“She loved to return to the world of the book, a workd in which people were willing to let go of everything in order… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
