A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?

The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.

Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and so forth. And, of course, a God business, which is called 'religion,' and which is a particularly reprehensible line of endeavor.

Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint.

But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore.

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.