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
Oh, love is very much a physical thing.... I realize that it's very complicated, and I'm sure it can't be traced to… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Don't you feel something magical when you're in love?... I do, I certainly do ... but I think that feeling of magic… — 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
Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature,… — 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
