It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

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

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement.

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

It's easier to make a reporter into an economist than an economist into a reporter.

Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.

The skies were blue when I was coming up. I want my kids to have the same opportunity, if not better, than I had.

I got all the Sarah Palin I need for one lifetime.

[ General James Mattis] is a Marine's Marine who has served in combat in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.