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

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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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Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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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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Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.
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No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.
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Continents of memory had been lost.
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One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.
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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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Just didn’t know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out…
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Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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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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