Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.

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

[W]hen all else fails, kill it with fire.

One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.

Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Only a system of state-controlled schools can be free to teach whatever the welfare of the State may demand.

Steroids, used correctly, will not only make you stronger and sexier, they will also make you healthier.

When I hit a period of not being able to write music, I get up and walk away. It's pretty mean but it's true.

In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window.

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.

An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?