Ask a deeply religious Christian if he’d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don’t seem so bad lately.
If you want to understand UFOs, reincarnation and God, do not study UFOs, reincarnation and God. Study people.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.