I believe that the most important condition for faith is sensitivity to beauty.

Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.

You cannot spend two thousand years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we’re not interested in it anymore.

It is only true love when you have no choice. Love is the most highly valued disease that is identified by the symptom of You-can´t-help-it.

As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.

Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.

Everything direct is positive, everything indirect is negative.

People who don't pay attention to the question of justification are often rather uninteresting, in my opinion. I am most fascinated by characters who struggle with the demands of justification.

If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language.

Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot retreat to the comforts of atheism.

You cannot simply discard God like a box that has been emptied.

Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination.

Make your decision for what is right not expedient, and wash your mind of all compromise.

Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.

I can be a real brat sometimes!

I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him about how to adapt my craft, which was actually very helpful.

In America I think we need to move towards a social democracy, European-style basically, and I think that in Britain we do as well.

I like girls who are intelligent, somewhat funny, and pretty with a nice personality.

I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.

Running is a quick trigger for a good mood. The great thing about endorphins, you don't have to be in great shape to get them.

Existence has no personality. No question of personalities, it simply is whatsoever it is. To experience existence as it is, is to know the truth.