Hell is other people's fantasies.

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

Imagination is divine. Your imagination will lead you to where you ought to be.

When our spirit departs, we will transit into the next world.

Weirdly, the people complaining about the healthcare website not working after three weeks were quiet about the Iraq war not working after eight years.

Our happiness relies more on hope, faith and our inner values than on anything outside ourselves.

Love life more than the meaning of it?

My whole family is really tight-knit. We're a really good team.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

I always wondered if you clone your wife and have the cloned wife on the moon and the real wife down here, would that be considered cheating?

I'm a common-sense kind of guy.

My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.