Quotes from James K. Morrow

Our policy is impossible to justify on rational grounds, which is why we've started invoking national security and other shibboleths.

A human life was measured out in bouquets, was it not? New mothers received them. So did graduating seniors, young lovers, blushing brides, and the dead. A flower woman was time's avatar, colorizing the hours, perfuming fleeting instants.

There was an otherworldly quality about him, the aura of one privy to secret communiques in forgotten languages.

If a cavalcade of organized killing has nothing to teach us, I don't know what does.

Non solo un pittore della domenica, ma un essere umano della domenica.

E' morto per un brutto caso di ventesimo secolo.

Murray crossed the sandy lawn using the cautious, inoffensive gait any prudent Jew might adopt under the circumstances

The heart is a pump, xxx weak and fickle as any other machine, and sometimes an embolism of indifference stops affection's flow.

The tragedy of my species xxx is that it does not live in its own time. Homo sapiens is locked on history's rearview mirror, never the road ahead, bent on catching some presumed lost paradise xxx xxx The human race is destroying itself with nostalgia...