Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]. . . that art occasionally resolves. . . the problem of the one and the many; unity and variety; determinism and freedom; mechanism and vitalism; good and evil; time and eternity; the plenum and the void; moral absolutism and relativism. . . These are the basic problems of human existence, and as far as we possibly can we arrange things to forget them.
Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. Where did the totality of reality come from? Did time have a beginning?
From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.