“(On stoicism) "As a matter of fact, the experiment has already started. Yesterday at lunch I had a smaller piece of pecan pie than usual, and I passed up the scoop of vanilla ice cream entirely. It's like I said… — 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
![“[...] as Kurt Vonnegut pointed out [...] the literary novel has become extraordinarily privatistic of late. It's as if the big issues (Does God exist? from whence springs decency? what sort of species is Homo Sapiens?) were either settled or not worth discusssing, and serious writers should…” quote by James Morrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ea7/james-morrow-40721_books_as-kurt-vonnegut-pointed-out-the-literar_175007.jpg)
