It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.

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

If I wanted to be free of this unrequited longing, I would have to make peace with the past and finally let go. There was no way around it. But did I want to be free of it - and him?

In imagination, there's no limitation.

And thoughts of no other man but you could possibly get through the picket lines to enter into my mind.

Maybe we're born lost, born to persevere

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.

Dancing is so great because there are all the little details, and the little movements, and the little muscles that are working without you even realizing.

Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song

There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.