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 tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For….

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….

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

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, ….

The Book of Telling tells of a woman's journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process, an unusual counterpoint b….

So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion..

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

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..

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

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

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

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much m….

Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that….

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….

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

If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you..

A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or somet….

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….

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

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….