Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.

I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.

I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.

No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.

Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.