No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.

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

He ate with all the restraint of a nymphomaniac at an orgy.

He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.

Memories haunting her, laughters chasing her, sweet talks stalking her.Everywhere she go, everything she does, it all leads back to him.

Take a step in the right direction and you will find your smile again. It will be there beaming by the light of God’s amazing grace.

Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed.

The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

Does love still exist if you can’t say it? If you can’t admit it?

Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.

Faith When you feel deeply that a certain act is the right act, do it and have perfect faith that the consequences will be good.