I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.

If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!

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

We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?

There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.

If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.