If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
We've lost our way, we have lost our centeredness. We don't have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“If time and the passage of events are the same, then time moves barely at all. If time and events are not… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“In another house, a man sits alone at his table, laid out for two. Ten years ago, he sat here across from… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic. Sometimes the first precedes the second, and sometimes the second the first.… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“A world without memory is a world of the present. The past exists only in books, in documents...A spinster sees the face… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“In fact, this is a world without future. In this world, time is a line that terminates at the present, both in… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That's good time. I have a couple hobbies.… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Those of religious faith see time as evidence of god. For surely nothing could be created without a creator. Nothing could be… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“When a traveler from the future must talk, he does not talk but whimpers. He whispers tortured sounds. He is agonized. For… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action… — Alan Lightman Copy Share
“I've decided that has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact… — Alan Lightman Copy Share
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way. — Alan Lightman Copy Share
"The Diagnosis" is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it... there was so much I wanted to do with… — Alan Lightman Copy Share
As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way… — Alan Lightman Copy Share
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science. — Alan Lightman Copy Share
A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in… — Alan Lightman Copy Share
Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past. — Alan Lightman Copy Share
For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling… — Alan Lightman Copy Share
Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much. — Alan Lightman Copy Share
In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and… — Alan Lightman Copy Share
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time." "They do not keep clocks in their houses.… — Alan Lightman Copy Share
