29 Quotes by Morris L. West

I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and the birds and everything else and I am part of it. I didn’t ask to be put here. I’ve been lucky finding myself here.

In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have never seen one of them in print. Books must be written, not talked.

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what’s going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we’re talking about, the ever turning wheel.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

There are still things I want to do but they’re not necessary for me to do. I’m not clinging to anything that I can’t open my hands and let go.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.