He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.

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

As soon as I laid eyes on him, it all came flooding back, all the reasons why I loved him, all the reasons why I hadn't been able to let him go.

That is when time stands still - when you watch the one you love, walk away.

People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.

Most American homes have alternating current, which means that the electricty goes in one direction for a while, then goes in the other direction. This prevents harmful electron buildup in the wires.

What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.

As you pass through bhakti yoga, as you pass through love, you're elated. You're fulfilled and you're joyous.

Death is not my best subject.

Hormones influencing the sensitivity of the person to environmental stimuli.

Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.