Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

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 should be aware of fake friends because it is the hardest to be aware of.

For me, I can not be right in anything unless there is no counter thoughts that contradict my wrong, in this case my thoughts will be right.

I would just as soon have abused the old village church at home for not being a cathedral.

Gilly Gilleshpee

Let me give you an idea how long ago they got married. You know where they met? . . . At a Cubs World Series game.

Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.

Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.

Because I've heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular. But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.

Kids are anarchy writ large.

Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.