If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.

God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath.

When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.

Ambitious, absorbing, and poignantly moving.

If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences in perceiving reality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming.