Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer; it's just to annoy you.

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

Are you always a smartass?'Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.

The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean.

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

I believe that adversity and negativity can be an amazing fuel towards personal success.