Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.

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

You don't pray for the growth and success of the organization you work for, but you pray God favours you before your boss.Really?

Our relationship had been doomed form the start, because it was based on grief, and unlike love, grief eventually passed.

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

It's just so much more fun to play bad than good. Plus it's just good to get that out of your system so it doesn't show up in your personal life.

The wolf was at the door. His shadow spilled into the room, taking it over.

The only way we know we love ourselves and the people in our life is by the agreements we are willing to make and keep

To say it is not practical, one has to also admit that integration is not practical.

Every day, I hear a song and I think, This would be great to cover on Glee. I like Led Zeppelin, of course, and Pink Floyd, Alice in Chains.

I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn't like the prospect of spending my life writing music for about 200 people.

It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the million that they don't have to make their film.