Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.
For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.
I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.