“It’s exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that.”

One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.

My second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.

An unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.

While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.

A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That’s a sign of a good novel.

Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.

Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational.

A book, especially a longer book, it’s a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It’s a vision of the whole thing.

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.

Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.

We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.

In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.

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.

Your picture brings me tears and memories.

The law of Christ brings the liberty of Christ. Keep His statutes, and they become songs.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

I’m just vibrant. I try to bring that to everything I do.

Some people brighten up a room just by leaving it.

A change based on justice, built with love, and which will bring us the most anxiously desired fruits of peace.

So we all have to bring to the table our own effort or our own passion in whatever way that manifests itself.

I try to bring musicians into the logistics of filmmaking.