Memory travels — not from instant to instant — but in waves washing up on a shore, back and forth…
The danger of Hollywood fantasy films is that they are simply too glossy, too picaresque, too spectacular. And too much…
Our dreams do not come true, as such, in the way I might have wished for. And yet it is…
The best allegory for what science can reveal about faith is not the particle accelerator or the telescope but the…
Chuang Tzu: “Pour into it and it does not fill, bale out of it and it is not drained —…
Without images, one cannot live, except as a machine or a slave. That is why we cling so often even…
Once, in Greek myth, virgins were known to fall in wells, and these places marked portals to the underworld. Even…
In medieval times, a ship of fools carried madmen from port to port, forever associating madness with the liminal mystery…
In The Martian Chronicles, which Ray Bradbury wrote in inspired vignettes over several years and assembled into a novel, the…
A most terrifying figure: a man who answers only to his dreams, and no other authority, not even his self…