Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind.

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

Nobody wants great things for you. They all want you to be something they deem important for them.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

There must be no final truths

The divine light which you carry within your soul is inherited from God because you are His daughter. Part of the light which makes you so magnificent is the blessing of womanhood.

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with

I just needed to realize that style was like personality - it didn't always have to be consistent; it just had to be something you lived with.

I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me

Life is a journey, not a destination; there are no mistakes, just chances we've taken.

All I need is some cool bud and some tasty hanging change-ups, and I'm fine!

Nobody will give you freedom. You have to take it.