The Matter With Morris: A Novel

Goodness was a matter of habit.

Finally, Morris discovers, it is the seeking of balance, rather than the achievement of it, that matters.

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.

Fine clothes could hide a turbulent soul.

Morris Schutt is stumbling towards a discovery of himself, attempting to understand how one should live the best life.

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

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

he who earns, earns wages to put into a purse with holes.

A mystery is more interesting than a suicide.