Even in your smallest gestures, you express your sense of honor, if you have one.

- Brian Morton

The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all the objects in the wor…

- Brian Morton

The moments of beauty, the moments when you feel blessed, are only moments; but memory and imagination, treasuring them, can string them together... …

- Brian Morton

You seize your freedom in a spirit of rebelliousness, exuberance, defiant joy. But to live that choice -- over the weeks and months and years to come…

- Brian Morton

So we recast the wisdom of the great thinkers in the shape of our illusions. They are shiny from their makeovers, they are fabulous and gorgeous, and…

- Brian Morton

A piece of writing is only worth doing if you're a different person at the end of the process than you were at the beginning.

- Brian Morton

The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.

- Brian Morton

The parasite of art, the virus of art, never ceases to gnaw awat at your brain, never ceases to torture you with the knowledge that whatever you’re d…

- Brian Morton

What you are is a complicated girl with simple needs. You need your books and time to read, and you need a few friends and you need someone-not to ta…

- Brian Morton