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I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds.

— Ridley Scott Esquire interview (2012)

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I honestly wasn't paying attention in school when I was told the story of Moses. Some of the details of his life are extraordinary.

Esquire interview (2012)

The disappointments and corruption are dismaying at every level.

Esquire interview (2012)

Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshipping the same god.

Esquire interview (2012)

Most novelists are desperate to do what I do.

New York Times interview (2013)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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