"Stories can help children understand the world and themselves."

If you want to understand a system, try changing it.

Truth is arrived at through rational reflection and observation of the natural world.

The boundary between the quantum world and our everyday experience is not as sharp as we once thought.

"The essence of literature is to capture the fleeting moments of human existence and give them permanence through words."

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.