Faith and Beliefs Quotes

I'll always be grateful for 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' It brought me many, many, readers.

I wouldn't trade anything for family time. To me, it is more important than everything else, and I have a very deep-rooted belief in it, which is influenced by my Jewish faith. That's a very great source of who I am and what I believe in.

In the case of 'Disobedience,' the very secretive way of life and religion and tradition that the North London Orthodox Jewish community has was a huge invitation to explore an unknown world. And also a possible trap, and I tried to overcome that by portraying it, hopefully, with great nuance and detail and texture.

Nowadays, people send rockets into space, and I think it does make you question if there's a God. They can make babies in a dish now! Everything we're seeing goes against what people always believed in.

I was the black atheist kid in the all-white Catholic school run by nuns.

There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.

Growing up, in church we had the homily; at home it's what I call the 'momily' - the inspirational and instructive mom-isms that every family has.

It has been falsely reported that I once filed for bankruptcy and - my personal favorite - that I deny the Trinity.

I had been working on this series called 'Everything Dies,' and it was basically me doing non-fiction essays, responding to religion and stuff like that, and I really got into this ideas of telling factual stories via comics.