Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need that in our lives, the mix of the new and the old. But of course I'm flattered about the comparison with Old man and the sea. Hemingway is a great writer.

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

I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.

So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting question?' Mr. Chiba: 'The story with animals.' Mr. Okamoto: 'Yes. The story with animals is the better story.' Pi Patel: 'Thank you. And so it goes with God.

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.