John Safran

John Safran: I'm definitely pro-religion, more so than anti-religion, I constantly feel like I'm going to get into trouble for the things I do, even if there's no logical reason for me to get into trouble. So that's the reason, I think, why I must believe there is something "there", God or whatever. Because why would I feel like I'm doing something wrong if I believed there was nobody around to punish me for it?

John Safran: Oh yes, the Devil does still live. And I do like the Devil, and I'm really disappointed that for example modern Catholicism is trying to play down the Devil, as this kind of literal figure. They go, Oh well you know, it's the Devil but it's not really the Devil, it's just like broadly talking about bad things and stuff like that. I don't think the Catholic church should do that though, they should in fact put a Devil logo somewhere on the front of churches just to get people in.

John Safran: It is life's great paradox, but there's nothing I prefer more than a game of scrabble but nothing I prefer less than my opponents who are always accusing me of putting out words that aren't real. Sure, if I put down a word and you haven't seen it before, it must be because it's not real. There's no chance there's a word you haven't encountered before, you know everything, you're the font of universal knowledge, you're a walking Funk and Wagnalls.