I don't have faith nor do I think I will have it in the future, but I'm not an atheist. My faith is that of a secular person. You might call it morality. Throughout my life I have acquired some wisdom but always through rationality, thought, and experience. I am a rational person and I work only through my own experience. My lifestyle is that of a secular person, and I have learned about human beings that way

Paris Review interview (2007)