Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone..

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population..

I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary. There are important differe….

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly..

I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is a real literature….

In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons, it is sometimes ha….

What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?.

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..

There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of….

I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails. So it's re….

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..

Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing. To the point that I have to be….

The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring thei….

I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Lo….

My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you're not simply putting down things that are alre….

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..

Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn't care one whit about us. Tornadoes, hurricane….

I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to use my time more….

For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling….

I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way than biolog….

As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it..