# Quote — James Morrow, Bible Stories for Adults

> My own preliminary diagnosis is that I am out of my skull and getting farther from its vicinity every day.

- Author: [James Morrow](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow.md)
- Book: [Bible Stories for Adults](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/bible-stories-for-adults.md)
- Page: 191
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_K._Morrow#Bible_Stories_for_Adults_(1996)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/bible-stories-for-adults/my-own-preliminary

## More from this book

> “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.”

p. 76 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/bible-stories-for-adults/in-fact-theres.md)

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

p. 11 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/bible-stories-for-adults/when-i-destroyed.md)

> 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.

p. 61 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/bible-stories-for-adults/being-god-i-must.md)