The bad news is that if we do in fact get off the earth we will contaminate the rest of the universe with our moral insufficiency.
E.L. DoctorowTags: human-impact
The ultimate technological achievement will be escaping from the mess we've made. There will be none after that because we will reproduce everything that we did on earth, we'll go through the whole sequence all over again somewhere else, and people will read my paper as prophecy, and know that having gotten off one planet, they will be able to destroy another with confidence.
E.L. DoctorowTags: human-impact
The images of things are not the things in themselves.
E.L. DoctorowTags: consciousness images
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader--not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
E.L. DoctorowTags: good-writing e-l-doctorow
The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without poem.
E.L. DoctorowTags: poetry
He wondered seriously if love wasn't a feeling at all but a simple characterless state of shared isolation. If you were alone with a woman your feelings might change from moment to moment but the circumstance of your shared fate did not change. Maybe that's where the love was, in the combined circumstance.
E.L. DoctorowTags: love
I cite too the ordinary fears of mortality the inspection of a fast-growing mole on the side of the nose blood in the stool a painful injury or the mournful witness of the slow death of a parent all this is given to all men as well as the starting awake in the nether hours of the night from such glutinous nightmare that on'e self name relationships nationality place in life all data of specificity wipe out amnesiatically asiatically you don't even know the idea human it is such a low hour of the night and he shares it with all of us.
E.L. DoctorowTags: fear life stream-of-consciousness
Perhaps we all reappear, perhaps all our lives are impositions one on another.
E.L. DoctorowTags: life
So: after all, we may with assurance say only the following about the Old One’s universe: that nothing is constant other than the speed of light. Of space all we may say with assurance is that it is something you measure with a ruler. And of time all we may say is that it is something you measure with a clock. But for the theological visions and screams and terrors this produces in our brains, I beg you do not hold me responsible.
E.L. Doctorow...if I moved at the speed of light, I could get no confirmation of my existence from an objective source of reflected lightsuch as a mirror. I would be like a ghost in the universe, materially unverifiable in the stream of time.
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