Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

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 truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history.

Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis.

Your hair is so white now it can talk back to the police.

I say eat fast and die young.

I've got lots of weird illustrations of me from Japanese fans.

I didn't start cooking until I was thirty-two. Until then, I just ate. - Julia Child

I'm obsessed with the human psyche. I want to understand. I want to ask myself if I have it inside me.

If people are driving you around to look at animals, that's wonderful. That's educational, but it's not necessarily enlightening and you're not finding out much about yourself.

Now I know that that is just the phenomena of eating this way. Most all of my letters say I hit a plateau and then one morning I woke up and the melt had happened.