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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 journeyto get there. It’s a way of thinking and it’s an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it.
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Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
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For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice.
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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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That’s an exciting thing. In a class of fifteen there are usually two very good writers, equal to good student writers anywhere in the country. Those two make the class wonderful.
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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? And if the shift is everywhere, how would we know?
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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not.
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