I didn't become a writer to write about 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

Intelligence is a burden not many are willing or able to carry.

Harvey Dent: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

When we don’t fear change, stress disappears. When we accept change, fear disappears.

We are under a Constitution but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.

Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.

Donald Trump is not a very bright or nice man. Bad combination.

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.

Me. I like to have fun. I'm like a kid in a candy story out there.

Worrying about things beyond your control is a pretty good formula for illness.

I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.