A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love.

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

Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment and it helped me. It has always helped me.

Adam was the only man who when he said a good thing knew that nobody had said it before him.

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.

Even kings but play; and when their part is done, some other, worse or better, mounts the throne.

There is no point in being alive if you cannot do the deadlift

What good are images if people understand them?

The face staring back at me isn't beautiful but she isn't something that would scare the horses, either.

Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.

Try to live as if there were a God