Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.

The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.

Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.

I don't think there really is much of a left in America, certainly by European standards even the left is quite right wing here.

I grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. My father wasn't religious at all. But he was really interested in the subject of, you know, the birth and growth of Islam. And he basically transmitted that interest to me.