Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.

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

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

(...)best of luck, avoid roasted cabbage, don't eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!

When you feel nervous, recall your pride.

Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.

I don't think people realizemilie-autumn-devils-carnivale that, once you turn your director's cut in, it's no longer yours.

You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear

My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.

Making music makes me feel vulnerable in the best possible way. It gives me a feeling of balance.

I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.