Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

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

The air had a cool crispness to it and the leaves on the trees had begun turning yellow and red.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

I need an endorphin boost.” “And making out in an abandoned barn with me will give you one?” “No, it will probably put me in an endorphin coma, and I’m more than happy to test the theory.

We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Drinking really cold beer is like slapping yourself in the face with an ice pick.

Always wear a smile. The gift of life will then be yours to give.

I don't know. I never smoked AstroTurf.

If you stopped playing notes, Music would still exist.