Introduction: the evidence of things unseen -- Paul Auster: A mocking and unfathomable mystery -- Saul Bellow: I believe in God but I don't bug him -- Michael Cunningham: We are all God's children -- Nathan Englander: Whoever wrote the Bible is God -- Jane Fonda: Christ was the first feminist -- Richard ford: I believe in the redemptiveness of art -- Paula Fox: God is the name of something I don't understand -- Jonathan Franzen: Reality is an illusion -- Spike Lee: I no longer felt anything in church -- Daniel Libeskind: We believe the moment we see -- David Lynch: Good and evil are within us -- Toni Morrison: The search is more important than the conclusion -- Grace Paley: Death is the end of everything -- Salman Rushdie: I believe in a mortal soul -- Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: I am an agnostic -- Martin Scorsese: God is not a torturer -- Derek Walcott: I believe that I believe -- Elie Wiesel: I have a wounded faith.