One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

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

Maybe we've grown out of each other.

I would like to have been born a man, so I could leave too.

I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.

I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

The day will come when the people will make so insistent their demand that there be peace in the world that the Governments will get out of the way and let them have peace.

What I have proposed would cut regulations and streamline them for small businesses.

Ganapati, the one with the human body and the head of a Gana, became a tremendous possibility.

The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.

Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.