Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'

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

Wonder is a beautiful bliss.

Look for new enabling technologies that create a wide gap between how things have been done and how they can be done.

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

Whenever you can, count.

Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it.

Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy.

Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

I was excited about The Dark Knight until Heath Ledger gave away the ending, Batman always wins.