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..

You've made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony..

People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each..

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present..

Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from….

A world with one month is a world of equality..

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….

Every essay - the subject matter of every essay - is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing about ….

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

The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it..

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

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….

In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. S….

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

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

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum..

The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time..

My second novel, "Good Benito", was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it..

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in term….

And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go. The loved ….

One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones. In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to….