I'd rather die fighting over great poets than over gods.

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

Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor

Wisdom always ends up in gain

One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you can't breathe around it and you realize you don't need air.

Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers.

Ric Flair is the greatest guy ever. He just wants to hang out, have a beer, and tell stories. He's the coolest. I've never met The Rock though.

I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.

He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion.

92 people are killed every single day in car fatalities. What if we filmed every one of them? No one would drive cars.

I always believed it would happen and stuck to my guns.

With which part do you watch? Surely with the mind? That won't do. It is the silent Purusha within who must watch all.