I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.

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

A synthesis embracing both rational understanding and the mystical experience of unity is the mythos, spoken or unspoken, or our present day and age.

Many people help construct our attitudes at a certain time and place.

You can't enjoy your life if you don't enjoy YOURSELF.

In a lot of African instruments, you find a rattle, and sound engineers have a hard time making sense of it.

I was in that generation where I was torn if you should put it on the web because you're giving it away for free but you also want people to see your work.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?

A lot of things I don't do well; I don't do warm and fuzzy well.

There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.

He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf.