Quotes About Author

'Black Mirror' obviously has its own universe, with a very strong fingerprint and strong themes, and I was intrigued on reading. It's such a powerful piece of storytelling.

There are a lot of experimental novels that test the boundaries of what the novel is, and 'Conversations' is not one of those. It's conventional in its structure, even though its prose style and the themes it explores and the politics that underpin it, maybe, are on the experimental side. Its basic structure is pretty conventional.

A lot of the emotions we portray are universal themes that resonate with everyone, so the fact that people feel invested in our partnership is truly remarkable.

I always thought of 'Lost' as a psychotic opera. Because there were so many characters, it was important for me to track them with themes.

When you read the New Testament, you see the Holy Spirit was supposed to change everything so that this gathering of people who call themselves Christians had this supernatural element about them.

I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.

Reading Edmund Morris's 'Colonel Roosevelt' is a rewarding journey, as it must also have been for its author, who concludes his three-volume saga begun in 1980 with publication of 'The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.'

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

I first came to Jewish-Catholic relations in 1963, while studying for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.

The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.

I am very interested in theology. In fact, my first degree was in theology, so it's something that interests me greatly.

I've done a lot of research on science and theology to try and get a better understanding of what happens to the human soul or what potential it has.

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

When we started ShapeShift, a future world of natively digital assets was very theoretical.

Much theoretical work, of course, focuses on existing economic institutions. The theorist wants to explain or forecast the economic or social outcomes that these institutions generate.

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.

The more there is a European solution to a theoretical, but possible, problem in the markets, the less we will have to talk about an I.M.F. solution.

I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.

My older brother is a distinguished theoretical physicist, a fellow of the Royal Society.

Theoretical physics hardly requires any research funding, so I never felt the need. The overall government and institutional support has been good enough for my work.