I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

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

Take down the walls.

Bodies lay in the sun. Bodies stood in the sun.

Whatever your mind can conceive and can believe, it can achieve

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

I'm very good at getting up in the morning - so much of my life has been spent on film sets where we start at the crack of dawn.

The minute anyone makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

I may be the only actress in Hollywood who won't need a face lift, because when I take off my makeup, I look so great compared to my characters!

When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it.