10 Quotes by James Morrow

[...] 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 therefore confine themselves to their various ethnic heritages and interpersonal relationships.

The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get Renaissance on his gonads.

There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.

But there is something about their eyes, and the way they smile at you, that tells you they're not just regular kids.

Because they're so different, they're totally a reflection of society and where we are, but in performance they also connect us to each other and the audience. We're all different, we're all connected -- how do we unify? How do we find a social awareness that's larger than us?

We get 'em in when they're 3 days old. We put their pens around growing feed crops, so they can feed in a manner that will allow them to adapt to the wild.

We also go throughout the area and plant small stands of milo that they can feed on as they scatter. There's a lot of work involved in doing that. It's 200 plots (each about a half-acre to an acre) spread all over this place.

Every so often, the memory atoms bond with the imagination atoms and something interesting -- a fictive precipitate -- will settle out of the solution.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but lack of curiosity would have killed thousands