I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.

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

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.

I am very needy for friendship and I hate men. I want to f - - them, but I can now say I'm engaged - get away from me.

What is virtue? reason put into practice: -talent? reason expressed with brilliance: -soul? reason delicately put forth; and genius is sublime reason.

What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love; To build a new life on a ruined life.

For too long, the U.S. has been operating upon the premise that American men and matériel should be capable of reaching and controlling all corners of the world. This was a bully’s universe.

The best theatre I've done, I've done right here in this living room.

We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.

What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.

I do not eat meat, I do not smoke, and I do not drink, and therefore, I do not feel the cold.

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.