I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

Everyone shares the same fate.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?

Reading Encyclopaedia Britannica is like channel surfing on a very highbrow cable system.

You do not need an identity to become yourself

Those who own much have much to fear.

I would do a musical, but I can't sing.

Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.

I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to.

I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all.

I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.

Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his drinking, for he took to that of his own notion.

A life that is planned is a closed life, my friend. It can be endured but it cannot be lived.