I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.

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

Fighting in the name of freedom has too high a price, " Merlin sighed as he leaned into his mother's arms.

Evil isn't born...Neither is purity. Because even as newborns, there is something wrong inside of all of us bound to spring up and activate itself within us.

I feel comfortable in a position of leadership, but that's not to say I feel complacent about it. I take it incredibly seriously.

I'm definitely moving more towards directing now.

The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers.

The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead.

Solitude is considered un-American.

There's nothing like a home-cooked meal - nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant in L.A. is, I say, 'Uh, my house.' It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.

I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.

Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.