My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.

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

It’s odd to see how no one is really human to us until we talk to them and realize there’s barely any separation between who we are and who they are.

Life wants you to know that people are more important than things.

I have the utmost respect and 'aloha' for black people - who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.

Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.

I still love racing and the challenge of it, but at some point, you get to a place where you're perfectly happy moving on and doing other stuff.

How much do I owe you?

The predation of wolves and women by those who misunderstand them is strikingly similar.

Outdoors for me is walking from the car to the ticket desk at the airport

see the things that you want as already yours

People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.