One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

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.

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 matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

When you experience a negative circumstance or event, do not dwell on it. Be proactive — put your attention on what you need to do to bring the situation to a positive result.

I felt tears pricking inside my eyelids. Maybe I came first with Oliver

You're different, you know.""Only different from you, " he said. "Not different from me.

Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.

Leadership is something I was born with.

No cancer is going to tell me when my time is up.

The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow

Protesting the color of a man's skin is not a worthy protest.

It seems that we have been born only to consume and to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling of frustration, and we suffer from poverty, and we are auto-marginalized.

The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment.