I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.

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

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

I just wish I’d asked you sooner. We could’ve had ages . . . months . . . years maybe. . . .

Look back on your life and find something small that made a big difference.

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time ... He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings

pain is absurd because it exists, nothing more.

Why should we ever continue anything if the first parts are the best?

When you need to stop an asteroid, you get Superman. When you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But when you need to end a war, you get Wonder Woman.

Love brings you face to face with your self. It's impossible to love another if you cannot love yourself.

After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.