It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.

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

The power of fasting is miraculous.

Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced.

When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts.

When an audience shares your prejudices you can always count on their applause.

f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

I have a good sense of direction.

There is something addictive about secrets.

There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don't know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.

Throughout history, the technology always comes first. It's just technology for a while, until the day we artists inherit it.

I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.