I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.

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

Christianity is a religion in a rush.

Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian.

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.