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I wouldn’t overall say that “The Diagnosis” is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It’s a modern tragedy.

Alan Lightman

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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So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
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I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually, for meaning in our lives. But I don’t believe there’s a supreme being, an intelligence that created everything.
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It’s a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.
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Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
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A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.
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You make one good shot and it brings you back the next time. With writing a long book there has to be at least one bit that has some magic in it that you can go back to.
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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.
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it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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My second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
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In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.
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