E. L. Doctorow Quote

In this country we tend to be naive about history. We think it's Newton's perfect mechanical universe, out there predictably for everyone to see and set their watches by. But it's more like curved space, and infinitely compressible and expandable time. It's constant subatomic chaos.


Paris Review (Winter 1986)


In this country we tend to be naive about history. We think it's Newton's perfect mechanical universe, out there predictably for everyone to see and...

In this country we tend to be naive about history. We think it's Newton's perfect mechanical universe, out there predictably for everyone to see and...

In this country we tend to be naive about history. We think it's Newton's perfect mechanical universe, out there predictably for everyone to see and...

In this country we tend to be naive about history. We think it's Newton's perfect mechanical universe, out there predictably for everyone to see and...