I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.

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

You hold all the potential for great synchronistic events to come together to transform your life.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

My work is intensely personal.

I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.

On Economic Nobel Prize 2014: I see one of my daughters is on Skype with me from London and in fact it is actually quite moving for the whole family of course.

True movies will never be measured by how much they make - they'll be measured by how they make you feel.

The modern athlete is an individual corporation. I'm not quite sure it's very good for sport, or good for team work, or those different things that sport says it's about. This is about business.

When you care about the culture, you can stop, pause, and say, "Okay, where do I stand in the midst of this all?"

To represent your country is an honor and a great experience.

The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access