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..

Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance..

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

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

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….

Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I've mentioned, of course, are original, but it's important to me that every b….

I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America. The mother and….

I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few ye….

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction..

A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction..

No one ever expects poetry to sell....

Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider t….

Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and ….

For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, ea….

I'm humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influ….

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….

That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized dise….

Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complet….

In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world..

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 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..