It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.

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

Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.

Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

I didn't want to be a hero to kids; I didn't think I had that. I just wanted to be popular.

The Shield made me realize there were great opportunities for writers in TV.

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

Pain is the body's way of telling the brain it's in trouble. Similarly, confusion is the brain's way of telling the body, 'All right, buddy, drop that book.

It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.