I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

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

Humanity must forgive 'Humanity', for only then can we be Humane.

I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

You don't get happiness from success. You get success from happiness.

I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won't. Such is life.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

You measure a person by what it takes to discourage them.

At that point the child is eligible for adoption and can be placed with a family that can love the child and can raise the child.

To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.

The more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes.

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.