I've had lots of ideas. For example, I had the idea of making a small version of the Vatican's dome. I also got ideas from medieval castles - I've mixed medieval castles with the Romanesque style.

[The significance of Darwin's ideas] has grown, ... For example, at this moment we're looking at Asian bird flu and where it's going. If not for Darwinism, we would be ignorant of the mechanism of that flu and how it changes over time.

I've never been with women, because I'm celibate, as ordered by God, as if I were in a monastery. For me, the church is my wife.

I still have the same beliefs as when I was in the monastery.

People are lost. Their feelings are based around material things, and because that doesn't make them happy, they look for something else: bullfighting or soccer, or they go travelling, off to India - and that's not right. You can't just decide, 'I'm going on holiday to India.' Only when God allows you to. You have to ask His permission to go there.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.