James K. Morrow famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And yet it behooves us not to judge the unlettered too harshly. We must stay the impulse to write CHUCKLEHEAD above their doors and carve DOLT upon their tombstones.
-- James K. Morrow

#Tombstone #Book #Writing
Ockham's disposable razors
-- James K. Morrow

#Razors
There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.
-- James K. Morrow

#Religious #Atheist #Atheism
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.
-- James K. Morrow

#Renaissance #Next #Ass
If there is a god, I think he has a sense of humour. He does not require human beings to protect him from satire.
-- James K. Morrow

#Thinking #If There Is A God #Doe

Kids are dying from causes of sexual activity. You're not going to find a tombstone stating that Frankie died because he was a virgin.
A friend to honesty and a foe to crime
An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.
A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.
Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.
If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

James K. Morrow famous quotes

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