I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America.
ALAN LIGHTMANWe’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
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I think once we stop asking questions like “what is the age of the universe,” or “how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level,” once we stop asking questions like that, we’re dead.
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In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
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I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents, live their own houses, learn ways of their own, suffer pain, grow old.
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The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences.
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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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For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.
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I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
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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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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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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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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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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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