Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.

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

Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.

It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.

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

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.

If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.