Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

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

In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.

There is a price for everything in life. Even what you receive freely has already been paid for by someone.

Dare to share for to Give is to truly Live.

He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness.

Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.

My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be.

I never read comics growing up. I didn't have money and I don't like to touch paper.

Lend your friend $20. If he doesn't pay you back then he's not your friend. Money well spent.

The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.

Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas.