If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.

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

There is no one way to be a magician any more than there is only one way to be human.

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.

The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; ie, by people relating to one another differently.

I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.

If! If! You can get 'round anything with 'if'.

Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony

I was kind of surprised that, about 99 percent of the people grabbed the thing [in Valerian].You know it's their thing. And I'm very impressed by that.

Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place