# Quote — James Morrow, Towing Jehovah

> To Thomas’s eye, Union Square combined the exoticism of The Arabian Nights with the bedrock banality of American commerce, as if a medieval Persian bazaar had been transplanted to the twentieth century and taken over by Wal-Mart.

- Author: [James Morrow](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow.md)
- Book: [Towing Jehovah](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/towing-jehovah.md)
- Page: 29
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_K._Morrow#Towing_Jehovah_(1994)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/towing-jehovah/to-thomass-eye

## More from this book

> Somehow his grandfather had wrought an honorable and glamorous life from the sea. But that era was gone. The system was dying. Advising a young man to join the United States Merchant Marine was like advising him to go into vaudeville.

p. 44 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/towing-jehovah/somehow-his-grandfather.md)

> “Another boyfriend?”
>
> “A character in one of my plays. Runkleberg’s my twentieth-century Abraham. One fine morning he’s out watering his roses, and he hears God’s voice telling him to sacrifice his son.”
>
> “Does he obey?”
>
> “His wife intervenes.”
>
> “How?”
>
> “She castrates him with his hedge clippers, and he bleeds to death.”

p. 71 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/towing-jehovah/another-boyfriend-a-character.md)

> Sweetie, if I’ve learned anything during my ten years at sea, it’s this. Never confuse your captain with God.

p. 74 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/towing-jehovah/sweetie-if-ive.md)