For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy. The tragedy… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and… — 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
In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The Book of Telling tells of a woman's journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition. A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones. In restaurants, walking, they have… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Something else gets under your skin, keeps you working days and nights at the sacrifice of your sleeping and eating and attention… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the… — 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
“Two men who had never seen each other before and would not likely see each other again. But their sincerity and sweetness,… — 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 Image
“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 Image
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
"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 Image
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 Image
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
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 Image
Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
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 Image
Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
