To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.
There's nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe.
We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!
Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.