Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past..

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 fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different g….

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….

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….

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….

A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door's shadow. A life….

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've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abuse….

With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the ge….

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….

Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return. All other giv….

Continents of memory had been lost..

Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death….

We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that mac….

With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions a….

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

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….

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….

When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flo….

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