though he could not be certain, he anticipated that we are saved by hope.

A mystery is more interesting than a suicide.

a failed cult whose main sources of entertainment were music, wordplay, and suffering.

Goodness was a matter of habit.

He is looking for a teacher and a guide. He is not looking for someone to bring light into the cave, but for someone to direct him up out of the cave.

to think, to reason, to find a balance between wisdom and passion, this is Morris’s main objective.

“Fear of violent death,” he said, “is a bourgeois idea put upon you from the day you are born.”

I’d be way more content if I didn’t always have to take myself with me wherever I go.

You are what you do, Morris, he thought, and you have been doing poorly.