My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.

To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.

science can only take you so far and then you have to leap

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

We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.

A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.