If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

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

Think outside of the box. Work outside of the box. Dream outside of the box. Succeed outside of the box.

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

Thank God for your mother.

I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.

All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark

Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.

With mindfulness training we are able to recognize when we get lost in our mental dramas, and bring a kind and nonreactive presence to the feelings that accompany them.

Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!