Alice Hoffman Quotes

In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.

I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.

I'll live in another world, then.

By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.

There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

I truly love science fiction; it's feeling you're something more than your present position in the world.

My portal to another world was fiction.

God no longer simply stands before us as the One who is totally Other. He is within us, and we are in him. His dynamic enters into us and then seeks to spread outward to others until it fills the world, so that his love can truly become the dominant measure of the world.

Most of us live in a world that has ceased to exist.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

Now, for the first time, he's seeing that there really is a way out of this, and it's all so simple. You don't have to run away. You just meet somebody special and step sideways into a parallel universe.

The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.

Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could. - Julianna Baker

Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.

I am not interested in communicating something to you, I am interested in communion. Communication means my mind talking to your mind. Communion means I am not a mind, you are not a mind - just your heart melting into my heart, no words.

We refuse to believe that this present world is the sum total of human existence.

There is a world elsewhere.

I always needed that extra fantasy world. I had to have another world I could be in at the same time.

What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.

Herein would I live; herein would I die; hereon would I dwell in my thoughts and affections; to the withering and consumption of all the painted beauties of this world, unto the crucifying all things here below, until they become unto me a dead and deformed thing, no way meet for affectionate embraces.

It’s in the environment of worship that we learn things that go way beyond what our intellect can grasp

I wrote the show West Wing for the two years before and the two years after 9/11. Suddenly everyone in the world had been through something that our characters had not been through; the whole trajectory of the world had changed. Yet our show took place in a parallel universe. I wasn't really sure what to do about this. In no one's wildest dreams did it occur that an event like this could possibly happen.

There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.

I always love some sci-fi and any type of post-apocalyptic world idea.