It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

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

Now she’s lit by the warm orange spreading from the horizon as not-quite-day, becomes not-quite-night

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

You can always find somebody to beat up. This goes back to the schoolyard. Most men would think, Don't chum with girls. But I chummed with girls.

Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are

I can tell you I'm pretty middle-class.

I've dreamt again of Manderley.

Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I blaspheme my King and my Savior?

. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.

Trying to find a human side to the character is a way to give them a chance to have people like them.

Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.