Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

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

You do not mean there is danger of peace?", cried Jack.

I want to be the purveyor of a certain silhouette or a way of cutting, so that when I am dead and gone people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.

one by one they all go away

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually ... I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.

The medicine of the future will be music and sound.

I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

Shambhala is a Buddhist tradition with its own unique view and approach.

Conquer with forbearance The excesses of insolence.

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.