James K. Morrow - Asked Quotes

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She asked, Do you believe science has all the answers?
Huh?
Science. Does it have all the answers?
Everybody thinks he's being oh-so-deep when he says science doesn't have all the answers.
Done. All of it. Virginity gone, flesh ratified, mother spited, mission discovered—the gospel of empirical truth! Yes! Oh, yes!
Science does have all the answers, said Howard, withdrawing. The problem is that we don't have all the science.

James K. Morrow
You see God as an engineer? asked Urpastor Phelps.
I don't see God as anything at all.
An engineer, you said. An incompetent engineer.
Incompetent, perfect, who knows? God is whatever we agree to pretend God is. God is our image of God.

James K. Morrow
Pop, do we have heaven? he'd asked on the day he discovered the (dead) cat. You want to know a Jew's idea of heaven? his father had replied, looking up from his Maimonides. It's an endless succession of long winter nights on which we get paid a fair wage to sit in a warm room and read all the books ever written... Not just the famous ones, no, every book, the stuff nobody gets around to reading, forgotten plays, novels by people you never heard of. However, I profoundly doubt such a place exists.

James K. Morrow
He was a devout believer in the second chance. To the man who asked, What's the point of closing the barn door after the horse has been stolen? Murray would answer, The point is that the door is now closed.

James K. Morrow