Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.

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

There are Christians who are doing the right thing, but not always at the right time

It's ironic when black non-Muslims say Islam is not a religion that uplifts black people when two of the most celebrated black heroes in recent history were both Muslim

Every day the world subtracts from itself and nothingis immune.

My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10, 000 nights I spent alone.

I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live.

I'm a living abortion.

Breaking old habits and forming new ones always takes time, but it is worth it in the end.

I think in the world of rock music or whatever it's called - anything outside of Nashville - there's a lot more freedom within that industry to do whatever you want to do.

80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. A few things are important; most are not.

I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie.