“Let’s listen again to Dencombe: 'Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task.' I love the fact that he uses the word 'passion' and the word 'task' in the same sentence—the one so exalted, the other so… — 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
“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. Sometimes it… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
“Let’s listen again to Dencombe: 'Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task.' I love the fact that he uses the… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
