A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

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

Degree of conformance to our other beliefs. One of our criteria for the assessment of explanations is coherence with our existing beliefs.

Love is a helium-based emotion; Love always takes the high road.

I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

You're never too young or too old to make your own kind of mark in your own kind of time. You're never the wrong age to release the power within you to create the life you deserve.

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.

I consider Greeks the Jews of the sea.

Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?

It was a tough choice [of PM]. I voted for a Scotsman.

Frankly, I like new things. I feel like I made a contribution to building a more interactive world. And I'm proud of that.