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Everyone shares the same fate.
Continents of memory had been lost.
No one ever expects poetry to sell...
A world with one month is a world of equality.
Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
I should have written books instead of reading them.
Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.
You've made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
My second novel, "Good Benito", was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much.
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.
The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.
I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country... people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.
As I understand it, a universe is a ... well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.
I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.
I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.
A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.
I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of ... shall we say, power.