“Nina said, “Have regular facial expressions.” That was a command from their inventory of facetious devices they used to josh one another out of… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I'm still plucking seaweed out… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
“And the question was still there of whether their true interior selves—the subtle bodies inside—were still there and functioning despite what age and accident and force of circumstance may have done to hurt them. He meant something like that … that when they had become friends it had been a friendship established between subtle bodies, by which he meant the ingredients of… — Norman Rush Copy Share
“The main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
...There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good and is… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe. — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
“There is no permanent friendship between men, among men. Something goes wrong, somebody marries the wrong person, somebody advances too fast, somebody converts, somebody… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
“A utopia I would join in a minute is a society which could be communist or capitalist, anything, except that no woman member of… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
I wanted to incorporate everything, understand everything, because time is cruel and nothing stays the same. — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
