Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.

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

Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

It's important for me to take very famous, well-known people and not have them play themselves and not have them be seen as themselves.

There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.

There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.

Collaboration is when magic is made with more than one person. It's when more than one person finds common ground on the same page. That's collaboration.

Filthy language is used by people who don't have the maturity or intelligence to express themselves with better words.

My reputation has grown slowly.

It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.