"I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required to...












Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.

More Alan Lightman quotes
"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.
"When a traveler from the future must talk, he does not talk but whimpers. He whispers tortured sounds. He is agonized. For if he makes the slightest a...
"While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
"And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go. The loved o...
"Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
"But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with ea...
"Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.