Alan Lightman Quotes

In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time.

In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.

When I used to play golf. It’s a terrible miserable game. It’s incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water…

The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.

In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.

In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

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.”

There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.

So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.

To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.