Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.

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

She was feeling something: a tiny pinpoint of feeling. She shifted slightly on the bathroom tiles. No. Surely not. From a book?

Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.

Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.

when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say.

I've recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.

The way that the soul is expressed now, and the only way it expresses itself in this age, is through the senses.

Bet you never eat, he says. Bet you drink up the oxygen like it's butter. Bet you can go for days on nothing but thoughts.

An argument which proves too much, proves nothing.

This doesn't happen in America! Maybe Ohio, but not in America!" Homer Simpson

It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.