In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time." "They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen ….

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….

We often do not see what we do not expect to see..

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?.

-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences..

Oh, love is very much a physical thing.... I realize that it's very complicated, and I'm sure it can't be traced to individual neurons and hormones, ….

One day I'm going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is pa….

I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration. A book, especially a longer book, it's a different kind of f….

If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and runn….

In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In a world without future, each l….

I consider myself a spiritual atheist. I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually, for….

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others h….

"The Diagnosis" is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it... there was so much I wanted to do with the book. I was extremely insecu….

"The Diagnosis" had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last yea….

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….

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….

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of a….

In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live ….

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….

It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has onl….

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