There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.

Quote by Lawrence Wright

Alfred A.
In the New World: Growing up in America 1964-1984. The New Yorker 86 (28): 47–48.

Wright is best known as the author of the 2006 nonfiction book The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.