Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.

The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

I believe in the story [ of Adam and Eve]. For me, it's a story.

You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.

I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be seen as a counter government or a parallel government.