Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.

You say, "Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse." And that's enough to make you continue the months and years to finish the whole book.

Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country... people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.

One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones. In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads. When they are on their cell phones they are not where their bodies are...they are somewhere else in hyperspace. They are not grounded. We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.

As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.