"Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order. The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation."

-- Alan Lightman

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“When you learn to take responsibility for yourselves, then you will start taking responsibility for the planet. The planet is being destroyed by your abandonment of responsibility. You assume that you own the planet. And ownership confers upon you the right to do as you like. You do not own this beautiful planet. You are simply a guest here.”
“May they rest in eternal peace.”
“God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.”
“There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. In a similar way there are people who think the only reason to read a book is to write a book...”

Source : Helen DeWitt (2016). “The Last Samurai”, p.18, New Directions Publishing
“I write R-rated action dramas, and every year that goes by, that gets to be a smaller and smaller world you have to work in. You have to think of how to get the studio excited and sell them something.”
“Im still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but thats just the way I am.”
“Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.”
“It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena... The atom must remain a tool for representing phenomena.”

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