Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.

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

The one who truly sacrifices the most is usually the one who talks about it the least

Also, in the dismal Cold Waste, any man treasures illusions, though knowing them almost certainly to be such.

Austerity, if I were to define, I'll say, It's YOU.

I want to experiment with new techniques and become a "traditional baroque artist."

Small is not beautiful unless small is skilled and dedicated.

To a child all weather is cold.

I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.

Never abandon your dreams. Follow the signs.

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.