I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

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

Self is for service.

You're a survivor because every day you make a choice not to be governed by their harsh words or actions. No one has the right to take away your happiness

Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.

There are as many preferences as there are men.

The so-called "remake" is simply a commercial formulation of a much deeper exchange which accounts for the way cinema is what it is.

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

You can't appreciate a great day unless you've experienced bad ones." - Rabbi Glassman

I despise politics. There is no room for it in a company. My life is going to be way too short to deal with that.