I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

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

Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.

Everything I have is for sale, except for my kids and possibly my wife.

Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth; Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth; Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth.

-"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful." -"It was stupid.

I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.

I am the least jealous person I have ever met.

One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.

He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.

I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.