A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

faith without doubt is addiction

Happiness isn't reserved for privileged individuals. It is a state of mind that can neither be bought nor stolen nor traded

and nothing can be more captivating than the waves hitting the shore

I won't sit here and say I've never had a pimple, but I try to have a really great diet, you know, lots of vegetables and fish. And I think stress plays a huge part too.

It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.

Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?

Without hope we are lost.

Understanding one's own power is more interesting than someone being given something powerful.

There's such a buildup of crud in my oven, there's only room to bake a single cupcake.

God ordained for every man one and the same means of salvation.

In the beginning was simplicity.