Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.

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

It becomes a lot easier to understand people when you realize that not everyone wants or is after the same thing.

My favorite place for taking a vacation is found in my library.

Peace means nothing without freedom.

I like to play unattractive people who think they're pretty. You can do what you want, but I prefer to look interesting.

More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market.

I always leave a relationship with a sense of hope.

She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be.

Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.

How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

Believe it or not, bananas do contain a small quantity of Musa Sapientum bananadine, which is a mild, short-lasting psychedelic.