Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

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

People are smarter than you might think.

I think in theater the playwright is king. Those words are unchangeable. They are the reason that everything else flows from.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!

James Finch is exactly what I'm looking for, as far as getting back into the race car to have fun.

The miracle is that each of us can ultimately be invited to places we have only dreamed about and heard about.

You know, funny can be universal.

Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.