To claim that science and religion pose different questions to the world is not to suggest that if the bones of Jesus were discovered in Palestine, the pope should get himself down to the dole queue as fast as possible. It is rather to claim that while faith, rather like love, must involve factual knowledge, it is not reducible to it.

Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.

Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired.

Americans use the word "dream" as often as psychoanalysts do.

In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.