Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn’t care one whit about us.
ALAN LIGHTMANThe world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
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In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time.
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You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?
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“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 insecure about it for several years.
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The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. … It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
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The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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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.
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Everyone shares the same fate.
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I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
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