Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.

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

It is better for your heart than your head to be your eye.

He took her into his arms again, using all his strength to be gentle, and let his lips touch hers so lightly he could hardly feel it.

Loneliness is not a feeling caused by the lack of people around—it is a feeling caused by the lack of one person.

Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.

Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.

You can trust a crystal ball about as far as you can throw it.

To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.

We bar girls don't cheat on wives, we are just the rope that cheating husbands hang themselves with.

Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.

Tibetans are great with meritorious practices.