It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.

The songs keep on writing themselves and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

It is the sincerest thing I have written caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession which I was trying to throw off and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.