All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

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

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.

A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.

Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.