I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.

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

Nothing can hinder us if we make the right choice

I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.

Guidance requires action, but it does not guarantee safety.

The interesting thing about TV drama that's kind of nice is, I'm just an actor. I'm doing my role.

You're no t going to please everybody.

It was important to me to put together a future history that would scan, and serve as the backdrop to the domestic story. Economics is really what drives the plot.

Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.

My life was pretty rough.