I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.

I don't know what it's like to be Jewish, but I suspect there is some aspect of that: being Jewish is the thing that bonds you as opposed to being Jewish from Poland, or Jewish from Hungary.

Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them.

I don't have an ideal reader. I'm trying to reach something simple and, I believe, universal, in every single person.

The Quran is many different things, and we also have to see the Quran almost as a secondary source commenting on the Old Testament.