Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.
Alan LightmanIn a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
Alan LightmanThe tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
Alan Lightman