Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's drive, you could be walking around a stately home from the 1700s. It's not very hard to do - in California, you've got to take a flight!

I find it easier to approach things from a critical angle that otherwise may seem daunting because I'm used to being scared.

I love learning things, whether it's a language or Philippine knife-fighting or the Viennese waltz.

I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

I used to go on chat rooms on AOL, back when those things existed, and argue with believers in evolution and argued with them that it was against God's law to believe in evolution. It was something I believed really personally.