Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can't be unthought.

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

Characters begin as your children and become your teachers.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

I never read, I just look at pictures.

I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.

To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.

Kitsch may be conveniently defined as a specifically aesthetic form of lying.

No one is as smart as all of us.