Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
ALAN LIGHTMANWriters read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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All writers have roots they draw from – travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
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It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It’s a challenge to the powers that be. It’s saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.
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With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.” “They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires.”
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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 the months and years to finish the whole book.
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Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
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I value my correspondence with writers…
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We walk from room to room, look into the room that is lit, the present moment, then walk on. We do not know the rooms ahead, but we know we cannot change them. We are spectators of our lives.
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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 disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination,
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
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The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality.
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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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