A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

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

It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.

If your not in it you're out of it.

Doing business in Jamaica is not easy, but it is rewarding.

After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.

In truth, everything and everyone is a shadow of the Beloved.

Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week.

The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.