I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.

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

Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics.

Lucifer, how, after a dozen millennia in Hell, could you possibly lose your way?" the Devil asked incredulously. "Well, " the lesser demon began, "It is a rather large place...

Oh, I know that she's disgusted, cause she's feeling so abused.She gets tired of the lust, but it's so hard to refuse.

Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.

When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely.

You don't smoke do you?" "No, why?" "They're afraid of fire." "Great, we're going to be eaten alive because neither of us smokes." I almost laughed. He sounded so thoroughly disgusted.

Pursue the thing inside us and others will help us. Pursue the things outside us and others will compete with us.

Fairly examined, truly understood, No man is wholly bad, nor wholly good.

Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.

Harry Patch didn't get enough recognition. Jerry Garcia got too much.