The New Testament is not a historical document.

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others.

Islam is more than a religion, it's much more than a religion, it's a way of life, it is a one party political system that has a very elaborate legal system that can put you to death if you leave it.

Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined.

I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.

But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason you were brought into Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you might know me better there.

Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.

I really believe that to have a full impression of Jesus, both as Christ as a man, you must know about the world that gave shape to him - the world out of which he arose.

The key to recognizing who Jesus was is to recognize this fundamental truth: He was a Jew.

When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.

I don't know that I'm post-anything. I'd like to think maybe I'm post-bullshit.

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind.

I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]

Festivus for the Restivus!

I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.

I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred to him; but angry he is, no doubt; and he is loath to be angry at himself.

A nickel is not worth a penny more.