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…
ALAN LIGHTMANDon’t you feel something magical when you’re in love?… I do, I certainly do … but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It’s a chemical thing in the brain.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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Most people have learned to live in the moment.
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It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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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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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.
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And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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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.
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Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back?
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Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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I believe that we need to slow down.
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You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable.
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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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