For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.

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

Is there innocence in ignorance? And if there is, do we tolerate other for their innocence's sake?

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself.

Cammie: I never knew there were this many stars. Zach: I can't see them. I just see you.

How long shall we Spiritualists be turned over like so many scapegoats to the unbelievers, by cheating mediums and speculating prophets?

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A government of our own is our natural right