Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.

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

A fool friend always does something that the enemy wishes.

Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

I did an episode of The Profiler. I actually worked on the last episode of Murphy Brown.

The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.

Just because we have a thought, doesn't mean it is a thought worth having.

Anger is poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature.

I do like a variety of things so I'm always interested in finding something that I haven't done before.

I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.

Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.

It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.