If you want to really deeply touch the viewer or the reader, the theater might be the most powerful way to do it.

If you want to really deeply touch the viewer or the reader, the theater might be the most powerful way to do it.

I've always felt a connection to kids who go to church. I think I'm fundamentally a religiously oriented and religiously minded person. It's very easy for me to communicate with people who have that same grounding, that same vocabulary or modality of thinking and expressing themselves.

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

The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.

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.