James Morrow Quotes

As with all things political, the issue was power.

Let us examine the language here. Evidently God is addressing this code to a patriarchy that will in turn disseminate it among the less powerful, namely wives and servants. And how long before these servants are downgraded further still...into slaves, even? Ten whole commandments, and not one word against slavery, not to mention bigotry, misogyny, or war.

In fact, there's probably only one thing worse than not being able to understand a person."
"What's that?" asked Nimrod.
"Being able to understand him completely.

I’ve gone insane, Michael decided, retrieving a cowhide-bound appointments book from his valise. Only certifiable schizophrenics showed meetings with God on their calendars.

If You intervene too profusely in Earth’s affairs, I’ve noticed, the inhabitants become chronically distracted, and they forget to worship You.

Being God, I must choose My words carefully. People, I’ve noticed, tend to hang on to My every remark. It gets annoying, this servile and sycophantic streak in Homo sapiens sapiens. There’s a difference, after all, between tasteful adulation and arrant toadyism, but they just don’t get it.

When I destroyed my unwanted children, it was murder. When Yahweh did the same, it was eugenics. Do you approve of the universe, Ham?

My friends in the nouveau paganism camp accuse me of quaintness: Bible thumpers are straw men, so why bother?...My answer is that straw men, once set aflame with zeal, can be quite dangerous, and that the gap between New Age irrationalism and Christian fundamentalism is not nearly so wide as we might wish to believe.

Monotheism is just one of the myths by which we live, and Yahweh is just one of the deities who populate these stories.

Love Jesus, embrace your inner storm trooper, and leave the planet a more miserable place than you found it—that's Christian nihilism in a nutshell," said Whip Hemsoth. "If there's a better path to fulfilling your purpose and engorging your wedding member, I haven't found it.

Oh, Robespierre, Robespierre, was the triumph of inadvertence over intention ever so total?

Bobby asked him what it was like to be insane. “There is nothing that being insane is like,” Rupert replied.

Don’t bring your petty little human perspective to the matter, Dr. Onslo. To a vulture, carrion tastes like chocolate cake.

There’s no objective evidence for an afterlife, and anecdotal reports of heaven cannot be distinguished from wishful thinking, self-delusion, and the effects of oxygen loss on the brain.