Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

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

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.

feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.

I hate walking up to strangers.

A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.

Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa." "What does it mean?" "You're beautiful.

Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you

The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before.