"Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties"

"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum"

"I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up"

"An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt"

"My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage"

"I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life"

"This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost"

"Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory"

"Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes"

"Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech"

"It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren"