I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

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

To her surprise, Lucky tilted his head and looked her in the eye, appearing oddly…crestfallen, she thought. “Don’t be nervous, ” he said. “I hate making you nervous.

We wish

Free the fire fluttering inside her rib cage. Work her muscles, the bow, the violin, until she played herself to ash and embers and left the rest of the world behind to smolder.

Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.

As Christians, we're under oath all the time. We're not always required to say everything we think or know, but we're always to speak as He did-truthfully.

I've actually not read any books on time management.

I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

You made a big mistake by letting me come, because now I'm going after your job

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.