Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.

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 can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely.

It was strange walking through the empty apartment. My battered purple room was gone, Brittany’s bruised blue was gone. Two coats covered everything. It was like none of it had ever happened.

View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.

You make a living from 8 to 5, but you make money from 5 to 8.

"I've done your dog. It's got nine eyes down the side, I made his head all square, 15 legs. What do you think of that?" "Fido looks a bit weird."

There are a couple of ways to avoid death, one is to be magnificent.

Now I'm running against a woman who, my God, that's all she talks about. Our true heroes, it's the last thing in the world they talk about.

Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.

It takes a child to say the unsayable.

The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.