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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
— Alan Lightman
The pilgrims chant with every minute subtracted from their lives. This is their sacrifice.
— Alan Lightman
Continents of memory had been lost.
— Alan Lightman
It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country ...
— Alan Lightman
The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
— Alan Lightman
We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
— Alan Lightman
I wouldn't overall say that The Diagnosis it's a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.
— Alan Lightman
As I understand it, a universe is a ... well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
— Alan Lightman
What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
— Alan Lightman
If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.
— Alan Lightman
I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country ... people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.
— Alan Lightman
Thus, to explain what we see in the world and in our mental deductions, we must believe in what we cannot prove.
— Alan Lightman
No one ever expects poetry to sell.
— Alan Lightman
While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
— Alan Lightman
I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
— Alan Lightman
Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
— Alan Lightman
He had a problem, like any other problem. The problem just hadn't been well posed. The problem was: Should he leave Penny or not?
— Alan Lightman
Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
— Alan Lightman
If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
— Alan Lightman
Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much.
— Alan Lightman
You've made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
— Alan Lightman
So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.
— Alan Lightman
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
— Alan Lightman
Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
— Alan Lightman
-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
— Alan Lightman
... part of the grief was that each member of the family was mourning his own mortality.
— Alan Lightman
Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
— Alan Lightman
Yet the time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
— Alan Lightman
Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
— Alan Lightman
Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
— Alan Lightman
Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
— Alan Lightman
Each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own.
— Alan Lightman
They have been trapped by their own inventiveness and audacity. And they must pay with their lives.
— Alan Lightman
My second novel, Good Benito, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
— Alan Lightman
Everyone shares the same fate.
— Alan Lightman
I should have written books instead of reading them.
— Alan Lightman
In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
— Alan Lightman
If the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past. And if the present has little effect on the future,
— Alan Lightman
Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers ... that is a small population.
— Alan Lightman
For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.
— Alan Lightman
The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
— Alan Lightman
A world with one month is a world of equality.
— Alan Lightman
No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.
— Alan Lightman
I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
— Alan Lightman
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
— Alan Lightman
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
— Alan Lightman
