If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

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

In a world plagued with commonplace tragedies, only one thing exists that truly has the power to save lives, and that is love.

When asking for advice, search not for what is on the surface, Dig deeper, questioning what does this person believe in?

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife.org. They help protect endangered species.

The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.

You're as good as anyone else is, if you're good. You're no less important than anyone else is in the grand scope of things.

Just met a boy, just met a boy when he could become my little problem.

I would like to throw an egg into an electric fan.

Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.