I missed my home - like the physicality of my home I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature the texts our first attempt at cosmology making sense of where we are in the universe our first attempt at health care believing in faith healing our first attempt at philosophy.

I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help and you realise that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis.

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience therefore would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women you're never going to defeat this pandemic.

In this country the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.

I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you've made a billion dollars you've probably become uncool.