
The Discover Interview: Lisa Randall (July 2006)
The Death of Cynthia Horner (1994)
Context: Among the waves of tragedy which have crashed on me with her death is a terror that our message of hope has been changed into a dreadful warning. But I must tell you that had I known in the beginning that I would be here today doing this terrible thing, I would still have loved her as unhesitatingly, because true love is worth any price one is asked to pay.
The other message we wished to convey was one of faith in the essential goodness and purpose of life. I have always felt that no matter how inscrutable its ways and means, the universe is working perfectly and working according to a greater plan than we can know.
The Discover Interview: Lisa Randall (July 2006)
“Life doesn't work out the way we plan, but maybe it works out the way it's supposed to after all.”
Source: The Sweetness of Forgetting
Where Is God (2009, Thomas Nelson publishers)
“The life, no matter how traumatic, never explains the work, if the work is any good.”
"No Expectations" http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/tv/reviews/n_9607/, New York Magazine (12 December 2003)
Context: The life, no matter how traumatic, never explains the work, if the work is any good. W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Doris Lessing, and Saul Bellow variously believed in faeries, funny money, flying saucers, and orgone energy accumulation, but so have millions of other people who never got around to writing even a mediocre poem or novel.
"Laurence Olivier" (1966), p. 208
Profiles (1990)
An Old Chaos: Humanism and Flying Saucers (pp. 79-80)
The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths (2013)