“Above all, the Stoics sought wisdom, a condition that I myself hope to achieve after I stop wrecking and burning things.” — James Morrow Copy Share Image
“(On stoicism) "As a matter of fact, the experiment has already started. Yesterday at lunch I had a smaller piece of pecan… — James Morrow Copy Share Image
“I made the only decision I ever knew how to make,' Truman famously asserted in one of his carefully scripted reminiscences. What does that… — James Morrow Copy Share Image
“[...] as Kurt Vonnegut pointed out [...] the literary novel has become extraordinarily privatistic of late. It's as if the big issues (Does God… — James Morrow Copy Share Image
“Above all, the Stoics sought wisdom, a condition that I myself hope to achieve after I stop wrecking and burning things.” — James Morrow Copy Share Image
“A bonfire of the books. The thought curdles me. Some say my species is imperishable, but they lie, for ours is a chilling, provisional… — James Morrow Copy Share Image
“At last my liaison pulled up before a squat structure of poured concrete buttressed with steel, bleak and featureless, like a sepulcher for people… — James Morrow Copy Share Image
“(On stoicism) "As a matter of fact, the experiment has already started. Yesterday at lunch I had a smaller piece of pecan pie than… — James Morrow Copy Share Image
“Unless I miss my guess, Yolly is about to become obsessed with horses. It's practically a stage on Piaget's developmental profile.” — James Morrow Copy Share Image
“Be happy to," I said, cringing to hear such a dumb, folksy locution escape my lips, then launched into my well-rehearsed precis. The fact… — James Morrow Copy Share Image
“...God's penis would still rank high among those vistas a priest and a nun could not comfortably share.” — James Morrow Copy Share Image
“4091 East Olympic Boulevard proved to be a nondescript one-storey sandstone building of the sort you drive blithely by every day, knowing it's full… — James Morrow Copy Share Image
