An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

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

But if ever I try to mend, some other bodies would instantly break, would instantly be fragments.

Consistency builds trust, confidence builds character.

Life is not meant to be easy. But it can be simple.

I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design.

Environmentalism, I'd always been told, was just rich white people.

I always try to just be honest ... As opposed to artifice or manipulation.

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelows thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.

I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.

Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing.

Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.