If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

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

Once you drop a mask, you can never wear it again.

Love costs nothing except your state of being.

Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?

There's lots of interesting stuff happening in the world. Lots of good and bad things, and there's interest in music still, which there always will be, which is always a good thing.

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.

Heal yourselves, doctors; by God I live.

Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.

It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.

If you would have peace, genuine peace, you must accept all the aspects of your personality and learn to be comfortable with them.

A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place.