I prepare for death by living.

I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication.

The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person.

I don't make that decision [what next book will be] until I've read enough to know that I've got something different to say and I know how to say it.

The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.

If you want to be a Roman Catholic scholar and write, you've got to write in such a way that nobody understands what you're saying, and then you're thought to be profound.

I experience God as the power of love.