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.

Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.

For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.

I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration. A book, especially a longer book, it's a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It's a vision of the whole thing.

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.

As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.

A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.