But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.

A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and that's all right; she can work, she can stay at home; she can be aggressive; she can be passive; she can be any way she wants with a man. But whenever there are the kinds of choices there are today, unless you have some solid base, life can be frightening.

If you were a tree, what kind would you be?

A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.

I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

The word 'charismatic' was made for Fidel Castro. You would have liked him, I would have liked him. Then you had to stop and say, 'Just a minute. This is a man who does not believe in freedom of the press...does not believe in democracy as we know democracy, had political prisoners.'