Everyone shares the same fate..

Don't you feel something magical when you're in love?... I do, I certainly do ... but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological resp….

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..

Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip o….

Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself. And since the human mind has ….

Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order. The future is pattern, or….

Continents of memory had been lost..

Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings. Sadness is no ….

Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds,….

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….

Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly..

A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a sign of a good novel. Not only will two d….

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….

Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?.

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

Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much..

I value my correspondence with writers...I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him - he is someone I really like.….

In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron….

Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it's not the destination, it's the journeyto get there. It's a way of thinking and it's an intellectua….

It's exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping t….

You say, "Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse." And that's enough to make you continue….