Some people are that - more than a parent more than a role model more than anything less than a religion.

Every man either to his terror or consolation has some sense of religion.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

One person's religion is another person's cult.

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face some side of God.

You know I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

Well right now I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.