I can't imagine falling in love with a devoutly religious person.

I'm not saying that I think atheists are better than other people. God, no. What I am saying is I do feel that this an integral part of who I am. And it's not something that I could comfortably think of not sharing with the person I loved most in the world.

The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.

hope is not a plan of action.

One of the reasons there are largely Catholic and largely Protestant regions of Germany today is that people did sort themselves out geographically.

I think people who love each other and live together and have children together need to agree on the things that are most important in life.

I feel culturally Jewish because of the way that I have lived my adult life.