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If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.

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Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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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.
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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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One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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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.
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If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.
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I would bet most people don’t have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don’t have to be sitting, they can be walking.
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