Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?

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

I don't want comfortable. My heart is not a recliner.

And a woman needs a man to protect her from other men. Well, women used to. . . . Things have changed. Women are in the middle East, fighting and protecting men now.

In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.

You’re not likely to err by practicing too much of the cross.

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.

Wonderful theory, wrong species.

Let me not follow in the clamor of the world, but walk calmly in my path.

Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.